213 Quotes About Henry-james

It's very pleasant to be so well treated where one had least looked for it.

He goes very far, but it's quite possible he doesn't go far enough.

I can't make out what you're up to . . . You strike me as having mysterious purposes — vast designs.

I don't go off easily, but when I'm touched, it's for life. It's for life, Miss Archer, it's for life.

I'm capable of nothing with regard to you . . . but just of being infernally in love with you.

Well, if you love me intensely let me as intensely alone.

She had not yet divested herself of a young faith that each new acquaintance would exert some momentous influence on her life.

It always seemed to me that [Henry James] had a kind of rush of words to the head and never stopped to sort them out properly.

Gone are the days when you took Henry James on the train and read it in front of cute guys to impress them.