"A Room With a View" Quotes
A young woman's journey to self-discovery and love in the backdrop of Edwardian England and Italy.
classics | 183 pages | Published in 2015
Quotes
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.
One doesn't come to Italy for niceness, one comes for life.
It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate. Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
I want to see you and to say something to you that is more than ‘How do you do?’ or ‘Isn’t this weather terrible?’
You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
We are not friends, and I doubt we ever shall be, but you're the only man I know who is worthy of being a friend of mine.
You must learn to be strong in spirit and ‘look life in the face’ with all its attendant sorrow.
We are all the same and all different.
Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us believe.
