Room With A View Quotes - Page 2

• He doesn't want you to be real, and to think and to live. He doesn't love you. But I love you. I want you to have your own thoughts and ideas and feelings, even when I hold you in my arms.

  E. M. Forster

  Real, Love You, Romantic Love

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• The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.

  E. M. Forster

  Honesty, Men, Soul

  E.M. Forster (2012). “A Room with a View”, p.132, Courier Corporation

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• “It is Fate that I am here,” persisted George. “But you can call it Italy if it makes you less unhappy.”

  E. M. Forster

  Fate, Unhappy, Ifs

  "Collected Works of E. M. Forster".

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• The traveller who has gone to Italy to study the tactile values of Giotto, or the corruption of the Papacy, may return remembering nothing but the blue sky and the men and women who live under it.

  E. M. Forster

  Men, Blue, Sky

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.361, Delphi Classics

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• Vacant heart, and hand, and eye, Easy live and quiet die.

  Walter Scott

  Art, Eye, Hands

  'The Bride of Lammermoor' (1819) ch. 2

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• He doesn't love you. But I love you. I want you to have your own thoughts and ideas and feelings, even when I hold you in my arms.

  Willis George Emerson

  I Love You, Romantic Love, Ideas

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• The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected. The commonplace person begins to play, and shoots into the empyrean without effort, whilst we look up, marvelling how he has escaped us, and thinking how we could worship him and love him, would he but translate his visions into human words, and his experiences into human actions. Perhaps he cannot; certainly he does not, or does so very seldom.

  E. M. Forster

  Thinking, Play, Effort

  E. M. Forster (2014). “Great Novels of E. M. Forster: Where Angels Fear to Tread, The Longest Journey, A Room with a View, Howards End”, p.482, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand.

  E. M. Forster

  Passion, Doe, Sanity

  E.M. Forster (2012). “A Room with a View”, p.162, Courier Corporation

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• Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?

  E. M. Forster

  Finding Happiness, Should, Boxes

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.399, Delphi Classics

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• I can't do it. I've been here before and it's not a room with a view. The only power I have is the negative power of withdrawal. If I don't withdraw I have no power at all. A relationship where one person has no power or negative power, isn't a relationship, it's the bond between master and slave.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Views, Negative, Withdrawal

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• Real writers - serious writers with serious subjects, who earn their living at it - all seem to write in small rooms with that knotty-pine 1974 look on the top-floor rear of their houses. Rooms with views.

  Peter York

  Real, Writing, Views

  "Writers' rooms: Peter York" by Peter York, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2009.

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• British films are all "room with a view and a staircase and a pond."

  Ben Dreyfuss

  Views, Rooms, Ponds

  "We Love America, and You Should, Too". Interview With James West, Ben Dreyfuss, www.motherjones.com. July 3, 2015.

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• Ego is like a room of your own, a room with a view with the temperature and the smells and the music that you like. You want it your own way. You'd just like to have a little peace, you'd like to have a little happiness, you know, just gimme a break.

  Pema Chodron

  Peace, Views, Smell

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.65, Shambhala Publications

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