213 Quotes About Henry-james

For it was of no use, she had an unquenchable desire to think well of herself.

But he's all in a muddle about himself, his position, his power, and indeed about everything in the world. He's the victim of a critical age; he has ceased to believe in himself and he doesn't know what to believe in.

It's her general air of being some one in particular that strikes me. Who is this rare creature, and what is she? Where did you find her, and how did you make her acquaintance?

She has a sort of old-fashioned character that's passing away — a vivid identity.

I never congratulate any girl on marrying; I think they ought to make it somehow not quite so awful a steel trap.

She's beautiful, but I don't say she's easy to know.""Ah, she's a thousand and one things!

Isabel, as she herself grew older, became acquainted with revulsions, with disgusts; there were days when the world looked black and she asked herself with some sharpness what it was that she was pretending to live for.

At a time when his thoughts had been a good deal of a burden to him her sudden arrival, which promised nothing and was an open-handed gift of fate, had refreshed and quickened them, given them wings and something to fly for. Poor Ralph had been for many weeks steeped in melancholy; his outlook, habitually somber, lay under the shadow of a deeper cloud.

Heaven deliver me from my friends!