213 Quotes About Henry-james

He was gathering everything up, everything he should tell her.

To live in such a place was, for Isabel, to hold to her ear all day a shell of the sea of the past. This vague eternal rumor kept her imagination awake.

Live as you like best, and your character will take care of itself. Most things are good for you; the exceptions are very rare.

There was literally, in the ebbing . . . an extraordinarily sweet sadness.

How on the other hand could I make a reference without a new plunge into the hideous obscure?

Soms droomde hij 's nachts over de doden - over vertrouwde gezichten en andere, de halfvergeten gezichten, vluchtig ontboden.

Ma le riflessioni sono un magro conforto: l'unica consolazione che conti al mondo è non essere stati stupidi, uno stato di grazia del quale, senza dubbio, io non godrò mai.

Oh, it was a trap — not designed but deep — to my imagination, to my delicacy, perhaps to my vanity; to whatever in me was most excitable.

It's beyond everything. Nothing at all that I know touches it.