213 Quotes About Henry-james

I know how you suffer, and that's why I'm here.

Yes, one has read; but this is beyond any book.

He had brought home to her, and always by remarks that were really quite soundless, the conception, hitherto ungrapsed, of some complete use of her wealth itself, some use of it as a counter-move to fate.

The truth is that James, like many other great writers and artists, had chosen his own loyalties and nationality. His true country, his home, was that of the imagination.

I see you want us all to go. I don't know what you want to do.""I want to be alone," said Isabel.

There was a sort of spell in the sense that nobody in the world knew where she was. It was the first time in her life that this had happened; somebody, everybody appeared to have known before, at every instant of it, where she was; so that she was now suddenly able to put it to herself that that hadn't been a life.

He had never supposed she hadn't wings and the need of beautiful free movements.

I should think that to hear such lovely music as that would really make him feel better.""I'm afraid there are moments in life when even Schubert has nothing to say to us. We must admit, however, that they are our worst.

When I tell you I love you it's simply what I came for. I thought it was for something else; but it was for that. I shouldn't say it if I didn't believe I should never see you again. It's the last time — let me pluck a single flower! I've no right to say that, I know; and you've no right to listen. But you don't listen; you never listen, you're always thinking of something else.