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Henry James Quote: “The young girl inspected her flounces and smoothed her ribbons again; and Winterbourne presently risked an observation upon the beauty of the view. He was ceasing to be embarrassed, for he had begun to perceive that she was not in the least embarrassed herself.”
Henry James Quote: “If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.”
Henry James Quote: “Poor Catherine’s dignity was not aggressive; it never sat in state; but if you pushed far enough you could find it. Her father had pushed very far.”
Henry James Quote: “It is very wrong to make love to a woman who is engaged, but it is very wrong not to make love to a woman who is married.”
Henry James Quote: “He fairly glittered in the gloom.”
Henry James Quote: “It was all there, in short – it was what he wanted: it was Tremont Street, it was France, it was Lambinet. Moreover, he was freely walking about in it.”
Henry James Quote: “It all left her, as she wandered off, with the strangest of impressions – the sense, forced upon her as never yet, of an appeal, a positive confidence, from the four pairs of eyes, that was deeper than any negation and that seemed to speak on the part of each for some relation to be contrived by her, a relation with herself, which would spare the individual the danger, the actual present strain, of the relation with the others. They.”
Henry James Quote: “The mere sense of his grasp in her own covered the ground of loss just as much as the ground of gain. His presence was like an object brought so close to her face that she couldn’t see round its edges.”
Henry James Quote: “Charlotte was in pain, Charlotte was in torment, but he himself had given her reason enough for that; and, in respect to the rest of the whole matter of her obligation to follow her husband, that personage and she, Maggie, had so shuffled away every link between consequence and cause that the intention remained, like some famous poetic line in a dead language subject to varieties of interpretation. What.”
Henry James Quote: “Which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?”
Henry James Quote: “Wasn’t history full of the destruction of precious things?”
Henry James Quote: “The women one meets – what are they but books one has already read? You’re a library of the unknown, the uncut. Upon my word I’ve a subscription.”
Henry James Quote: “Whether or no being hopelessly vulgar is being ‘bad’ is a question for the metaphysicians.”
Henry James Quote: “Between nine and ten, at last, in the high clear picture – he was moving in these days, as in a gallery, from clever canvas to clever canvas – he drew a long breath: it was so presented to him from the first that the spell of his luxury wouldn’t be broken.”
Henry James Quote: “There’s no way to do that, Miss Archer. I won’t say that if you refuse me you’ll kill me; I shall not die of it. But I shall do worse; I shall live to no purpose.”
Henry James Quote: “All these people – the people of the English mother’s side – had been of condition more or less eminent; yet with oddities and disparities that had often since made Maria, thinking them over, wonder what they really quite rhymed to.”
Henry James Quote: “I suspect that the age of letters is waning, for our time. It is the age of Panama Canals, of Sandra Bernhardt, of Western wheat raising, of merely material expansion. Art, form, may return, but I doubt I shall live to see them – I don’t believe they are as eternal as the poets say.”
Henry James Quote: “One’s theories, after all, matter little, it is one’s humor that is the great thing.”
Henry James Quote: “Every one asks me what I ‘think’ of everything,” said Spencer Brydon; “and I make answer as I can – begging or dodging the question, putting them off with any nonsense. It wouldn’t matter to any of them really,” he went on, “for, even were it possible to meet in that stand-and-deliver way so silly a demand on so big a subject, my ‘thoughts’ would still be almost altogether about something that concerns only myself.”
Henry James Quote: “The superiority you discern in me,” she concurred, “announces my futility. If you knew,” she sighed, “the dreams of my youth!” But our realities are what has brought us together. We’re beaten brothers in arms.”
Henry James Quote: “We were cut off, really, together; we were united in our danger.”
Henry James Quote: “I was on the point of saying that a happy chance had favoured him, but it occurs to me that one is under no obligation to call chances by flattering epithets when they have been waited for so long.”
Henry James Quote: “I don’t like it, but I’m a person, thank goodness, who can do what I don’t like.”
Henry James Quote: “But it was as if I had been looking at him for years and had known him always.”
Henry James Quote: “He has depths of silence – which he breaks only at the longest intervals by a remark. And when the remark comes it’s always something he has seen or felt for himself – never a bit banal. That would be what one might have feared and what would kill me. But never.”
Henry James Quote: “It had come back to him simply that what he had been looking at all summer was a very rich and beautiful world, and that it had not all been made by sharp railroad men and stock-brokers.”
Henry James Quote: “I want to see what life makes of you. One thing is certain – it can’t spoil you. It may pull you about horribly, but I defy it to break you up.”
Henry James Quote: “He envied Miss Barrace at any rate her power of not being. She seemed, with little cries and protests and quick recognitions, movements like the darts of some fine high-feathered free-pecking bird, to stand before life as before some full shop-window. You could fairly hear, as she selected and pointed, the tap of her tortoise-shell against the glass.”
Henry James Quote: “Though it might have its momentary alarms, paternity is not an exciting vocation.”
Henry James Quote: “We know too much about people in these days; we hear too much. Our ears, our minds, our mouths, are stuffed with personalities. Don’t mind anything anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.”
Henry James Quote: “And it was in the mitigated midnight of these approximations that she had discerned the promise of her dawn.”
Henry James Quote: “Living as he now lived was like reading a good book in a poor translation...”
Henry James Quote: “Her real offense was having a mind of her own.”
Henry James Quote: “What it all amounted to, oddly enough, was that in his finally so simplified world this garden of death gave him the few square feet of earth on which he could still most live.”
Henry James Quote: “I reflected that I had already, with him, hurt myself beyond repair.”
Henry James Quote: “The Countess was very good company and not really the featherhead she seemed; all one had to do with her was to observe the simple condition of not believing a word she said.”
Henry James Quote: “I don’t see what harm there is in my wishing not to tie myself. I don’t want to begin life by marrying. There are other things a woman can do.”
Henry James Quote: “Absence was a sign that when it might be a question of gratifying him.”
Henry James Quote: “The old-world quality in everything that she now saw had all the charm of strangeness.”
Henry James Quote: “They had found themselves looking at each other straight, and for a longer time on end than was usual even at parties in galleries; but that, after all, would have been a small affair, if there hadn’t been something else with it. It wasn’t, in a word, simply that their eyes had met; other conscious organs, faculties, feelers had met as well.”
Henry James Quote: “These three words from her were in a flash like the glitter of a drawn blade, the jostle of the cup that my hand for weeks and weeks had held high and full to the brim and that now, even before speaking, I felt overflow in a deluge.”
Henry James Quote: “The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life, in general, so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it-this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience, and they occur in country and in town, and in the most differing stages of education.”
Henry James Quote: “I didn’t refuse often enough.”
Henry James Quote: “Ah, one doesn’t give up one’s country any more than one gives UP one’s grandmother. They’re both antecedent to choice – elements of one’s composition that are not to be eliminated.”
Henry James Quote: “The will, I believe, is the mystery of mysteries. Who can say beforehand that his will is strong? There are all kinds of indefinable currents moving to and fro between one’s will and one’s inclinations. People talk as if the two things were essentially distinct; on different sides of one’s organism, like the heart and the liver. I believe there is a certain group of circumstances possible for every man, in which his will is destined to snap like a dry twig.”
Henry James Quote: “My dear young lady,′ said her distinguished friend, ‘isn’t “to live” exactly what I’m trying to persuade you to take the trouble to do?”
Henry James Quote: “But you must remember that justice to a lovely being is after all a florid sort of sentiment.”
Henry James Quote: “I don’t approve of myself in the least. Sometimes it comes over me – how I should object to myself if I were not myself.”
Henry James Quote: “It isn’t a question of any beauty,’ said Maggie; ‘it’s only a question of the quantity of truth.’ ‘Oh the quantity of truth!’ the Prince richly though ambiguously murmured.”
Henry James Quote: “The American girl isn’t ANY girl; she’s a remarkable specimen in a remarkable species.”
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