213 Quotes About Henry-james

She never wanted the truth . . . She wanted you. She would have taken from you what you could give her, and been glad of it even if she had known it false. You might have lied to her from pity, and she have seen you and felt you lie, and yet—since it was all for tenderness—she would have thanked you and blessed you and clung to you but the more. For that was your strength, my dear man—that she loves you with passion.

She moved quickly indeed, and with reason, for a strange truth was filtering into her soul.

Ah, be mine as I'm yours!

It's to be something you're merely to suffer?""Well, say to wait for--to have to meet, to face, to see suddenly break out in my life; possibly destroying all further consciousness, possibly annihilating me; possibly, on the other hand, only altering everything, striking at the root of all my world and leaving me to the consequences, however they shape themselves.

Then it hasn't been love," said May Bartram. "Well, I at least thought it was. I took it for that--I've taken it till now. It was agreeable, it was delightful, it was miserable," he explained.

She was all too sunk in the inevitable, and the abysmal.

A great many people give me the impression of never having for a moment felt anything.

If you decline to understand me I wholly decline to understand you.

I like so many things! If a thing strikes me with a certain intensity I accept it. I don't want to swagger, but I suppose I'm rather versatile.