213 Quotes About Henry-james

Now that he was alone with her all the passion he had never stifled surged into his senses; it hummed in his eyes and made things swim round him.

The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.

It would have been impossible to carry a bad name with a greater sweetness of innocence.

It had been her fortune to possess a finer mind than most of the persons among whom her lot was cast; to have a larger perception of surrounding facts and to care for knowledge that was tinged with the unfamiliar.

She sometimes felt a sort of passion of tenderness for memories which had led no other merit than that they belonged to her unmarried life.

In Isabel's mind today there was nothing clear; there was a confusion of regrets, a complication of fears.

Mr. Offord's drawing-room was indeed Brooksmith's garden, his pruned and tended human parterre, and if we all flourished there and grew well in our places it was largely owing to his supervision.

There's no romance here but what you may have brought with you.

I shall find you delightful; I think you're enchanting just as you are.