213 Quotes About Henry-james

Satisfied to die in the flower of her youth?""Well, at peace with you.""Oh, 'peace'!" he murmured with his eyes on the fire."The peace of having loved."He raised his eyes to her. "Is that peace?""Of having been loved," she went on. "That is. Of having," she wound up, "realised her passion. She wanted nothing more. She had had all she wanted.

If you could see none but the people I like, my dear, you'd have a very small society.

I'm perfectly aware, for instance, that you know good society from bad.""Society is all bad.

I don't know, however, what right I have to ask a service of you.""You're the person in the world who has most right," he answered. "I've given you assurances that I've never given any one else.

He has made me believe in true love; I never did before!

His indirect way of approaching a character or an action, striving to realize it by surrounding rather than invading it, is ideally suited to the indefinite and suggestive presentation of a ghost story.(introduction to "Sir Edmund Orme" by Henry James)

But for me there are only two classes: the people I trust and the people I don't.

The vice in the air, otherwise, was too much like the breath of fate.

I can't escape unhappiness.