213 Quotes About Henry-james

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.

The stale September days, in the huge half-empty town, had a charm wrapped in them as a coloured gem might be wrapped in a dusty cloth.

The past came back to her in one of those rushing waves of emotion by which persons of sensibility are visited at odd hours.

I have just read a long novel by Henry James. Much of it made me think of the priest condemned for a long space to confess nuns.

It really doesn't matter where I am now. I've exhausted all remedies, I've swallowed all climates.

They indeed had been wondrous for others while he was but wondrous for himself; which, however, was exactly the cause of his haste to renew the wonder by getting back, as he might put it, into his own presence. That had quickened his steps and checked his delay. If his visit was prompt it was because he had been separated so long from the part of himself that alone he now valued.

She likes to do everything for herself and has no belief in any one's power to help her.

Since I've moved here a Chinese takeaway on the main street has ominiously renamed itself from whatever it was before to the Golden Bowl, but other than that, the landscape is the last place on earth that might call Mizuko to mind.

The old-world quality in everything that she now saw had all the charm of strangeness.