Forster Italy Quotes & Sayings

One doesn't come to Italy for niceness," was the retort; "one comes for life. Buon giorno! Buon giorno! — E. M. Forster

Let her go to Italy!" he cried. "Let her meddle with what she doesn't understand! — E. M. Forster

Remember that it's only by going off the track that you get to know the country...And don't, let me beg you, go with that awful tourist idea that Italy's only a museum of antiquities and art. Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvelous than the land. — E. M. Forster

Then the pernicious charm of Italy worked on her, and, instead of acquiring information, she began to be happy. — E. M. Forster

It is fate that I am here,' George persisted, 'but you can call it Italy if it makes you less unhappy. — E. M. Forster

Italy was offering her the most priceless of all possessions - her own soul. — E. M. Forster

Do you remember Italy? — E. M. Forster

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

They travelled for thirteen hours down-hill, whilst the streams broadened and the mountains shrank, and the vegetation changed, and the people ceased being ugly and drinking beer, and began instead to drink wine and to be beautiful. — E. M. Forster

Italy and London are the only places where I don't feel to exist on sufferance. — E. M. Forster

Italy. It may be full of beautiful pictures and churches, but we cannot judge a country by anything but its
men. — E. M. Forster

No, mother; no. She was really keen on Italy. This travel is quite a crisis for her." He found the situation full of whimsical romance: there was something half attractive, half repellent in the thought of this vulgar woman journeying to places he loved and revered. Why should she not be transfigured? The same had happened to the Goths. — E. M. Forster

There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy. — E. M. Forster