A Room with a View Quotes.

1. "Anyone can find places, but the finding of people is a gift from God."
- E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

2. "She disliked confidences, for they might lead to self-knowledge and to that king of terrors—Light."
- E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

3. "He only stopped once, to pick her some great blue violets. She thanked him with real pleasure. In the company of this common man the world was beautiful and direct. For the first time she felt the influence of spring. His arm swept the horizon gracefully; violets, like other things, existed in great profusion there; would she like to see them? 'Ma buoni uomini.' He bowed. Certainly. Good men first, violets afterwards."
- E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

4. "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. 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. Lucy had done so never."
- E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

5. "But Italy worked some marvel in her. It gave her light..."
- E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

6. "My dear,’ said the old men gently, ‘I think that you are repeating what you have heard older people say. You are pretending to be touchy; but you are not really. Stop being so tiresome, and tell me instead what part of the church you want to see. To take you to it will be a real pleasure."
- E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

7. "But it is sometimes as difficult to lose one's temper as it is difficult at other times to keep it."
- E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

8. "She grew more and more vexed with his dignified behavior. By a cruel irony, she was drawing out what was best in his disposition."
- E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

9. "Then the pernicious charm of Italy worked on her, and, instead of acquiring information, she began to be happy."
- E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

10. "She was no dazzling exécutante; her runs were not at all like stings of pearls, an she struck no more right notes than was suitable for one of her age and situation. Nor was she the passionate young lady, who performs so tragically on a summer's evening with the window open. Passion was there, but it could not be easily labelled; it slipped between love and hatred and jealousy, and all the furniture of the pictorial style. And she was tragical only in the sense that she was great, for she loved to play in the side of Victory. Victory of what and over what - that is more than words of daily life can tell us. But that some sonatas of Beethoven are written tragic no one can gainsay; yet they can triumph or despair as the player decides, and Lucy had decided that they should triumph."
- E.M. Forster, A Room with a View