Quotes on Room With A View

George had turned at the sound of her arrival. For a moment he contemplated her, as one who had fallen out of heaven. He saw radiant joy in her face, he saw the flowers beat against her dress in blue waves. The bushes above them closed. He stepped quickly forward and kissed her. Before she could speak, almost before she could feel, a voice called 'Lucy! Lucy! Lucy!' The silence of life had been broken by Miss Bartlett, who stood brown against the view.

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do harm - yes, choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.

If Miss Honeychurch ever takes to live as she plays, it will be very exciting--both for us and for her.

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

It makes a difference doesn't it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?

Are not beauty and delicacy the same?

It so happened that Lucy, who found daily life rather chaotic, entered a more solid world when she opened the piano. She was then no longer either deferential or patronizing; no longer either a rebel or a slave.

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

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