Quotes

It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted. ~ Middlemarch by George Eliot It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view. ~ Middlemarch by George Eliot "Explain! Tell a man to explain how he dropped into hell! Explain my preference! I never had a preference for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing. No other woman exists by the side of her. I would rather touch her hand if it were dead, than I would touch any other woman's living." ~ Middlemarch by George Eliot There are shadows because there are hills. ~ A Room With A View by E. M. Forster "'Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.'" ~ A Room With A View by E. M. Forster Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes. ~ A Room With A View by E. M. Forster Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice. ~ A Room With A View by E. M. Forster "I do love you surely in a better way than he does." He thought. "Yes—really in a better way. I want you to have your own thoughts even when I hold you in my arms." ~ A Room With A View by E. M. Forster "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." ~ A Room With A View by E. M. Forster "It isn't possible to love and to 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." ~ A Room With A View by E. M. Forster