213 Quotes About Henry-james

She longed for opportunities, but these were not the opportunities she meant.

She was glad to pause, however, on the edge of this larger adventure; there was such a thrill even in the preliminary hovering.

It was in her disposition at all times to lose faith in the reality of absent things; she could summon back her faith, in case of need, with with an effort, but the effort was often painful even when the reality had been pleasant. The past was apt to look dead and its revival rather to show the livid light of a judgement-day.

Nothing could be happier, in general, than to seem dazzling, but she had a perverse unwillingness to glitter by arrangement.

The more information one has about one's dangers the better.

There was a kind of violence in some of her impulses.

He was lost in wonder at the mystery of things.

I don't approve of myself in the least. Sometimes it comes over me — how I should object to myself if I were not myself.

But will they make themselves agreeable to me? That's what I like people to do. I don't hesitate to say so, because I always appreciate it.