E. M. Forster Room With A View Quotations

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.

Are not beauty and delicacy the same?

... there are shadows because there are hills.

It is fate that I am here,' George persisted, 'but you can call it Italy if it makes you less unhappy.

I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.

By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.

Men were not gods after all, but as human and as clumsy as girls.

Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?

It isn't possible to love and to part.

You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.