213 Quotes About Henry-james

I don't know, upon my honour, what I'm doing.

But I think on the whole I would rather be myself than you. I'm quite content to be myself; I don't want to change.

It was nothing, but it was somehow everything—it was that something for each of them had happened.

I don't believe they're very nice to girls; they're not nice to them in the novels.

Ah yes, there had been intention, there had been intention, Isabel said to herself; and she seemed to wake from a long pernicious dream.

If I could stay —""For me you'll always be here," she softly interrupted.

Don't you know the soul is an immortal principle? How can it suffer alteration?""I don't believe at all that it's an immortal principle. I believe it can perfectly be destroyed. That's what has happened to mine, which was a very good one to start with; and it's you I have to thank for it. You're very bad," she added with gravity in her emphasis.

I do nothing for any one in the world but you. But for you I'll do anything.""Good, good," said Kate. "That's how I like you."He waited again an instant. "Then you swear to it?""To 'it'? To what?""Why, that you do 'like' me. For it's only for that, you know, that I'm letting you do—well, God knows what with me.

I dare say," Densher granted, "we were both thinking of her.""You were neither of you thinking of any one else.