Henry James Citations
Henry James: Citations en anglais
“It's not my fate to give up--I know it can't be.”
Source: The Portrait of a Lady
“Her memory's your love. You want no other.”
Source: The Wings of the Dove
The Art of Fiction http://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/artfiction.html (1884)
“Live all you can; it's a mistake not to.”
Source: The Ambassadors
The New Novel (1914).
“The terrible fluidity of self-revelation.”
The Ambassadors
Prefaces (1907-1909)
“Print it as it stands — beautifully.”
The Death of the Lion http://books.google.com/books?id=tLE_AAAAYAAJ&q="Print+it+as+it+stands+beautifully"&pg=PA63#v=onepage (1894).
The Aspern Papers; The Turn of the Screw; The Liar; The Two Faces.
Prefaces (1907-1909)
“The full, the monstrous demonstration that Tennyson was not Tennysonian.”
The Middle Years (1917), ch. VI.
“Cats and monkeys — monkeys and cats — all human life is there!”
The Madonna of the Future http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2460/2460-h/2460-h.htm (1879)
The Atlantic Monthly, March 1873 http://books.google.com/books?id=T4cGAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Cats+and+monkeys+monkeys+and+cats+all+human+life+is+there%22&pg=PA293#v=onepage
The Art of Fiction http://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/artfiction.html (1884)
Flaubert (1893).
Letter to Charles Eliot Norton (4 February 1872).
"Venice," The Century Magazine, vol. XXV (November 1882), reprinted in Portraits of Places (1883) and later in Italian Hours http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/8ihou10.txt (1909), ch. I: Venice, pt. II.
"Anthony Trollope," Century Magazine (July 1883); reprinted in Partial Portraits (1888).
"Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history." — Henry James (1879-1947), Charles W. Eliot (1930), 2 vol. This namesake was James' nephew, the son of William James. His life of Eliot earned him the 1931 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
Misattributed
Letter to Charles Eliot Norton (16 January 1871).
“There's no more usual basis of union than a mutual misunderstanding.”
Source: The Portrait of a Lady (1881), Ch. XV.
“So here it is at last, the distinguished thing!”
After suffering a stroke (1915-12-02), the first of several which led to his death, as recounted by Edith Wharton in A Backward Glance (1934), ch. 14: "He is said to have told his old friend Lady Prothero, when she saw him after the first stroke, that in the very act of falling (he was dressing at the time) he heard in the room a voice which was distinctly, it seemed, not his own, saying: 'So here it is at last, the distinguished thing!'".
“In the long run an opinion often borrows credit from the forbearance of its patrons.”
"Essays in Criticism by Matthew Arnold," North American Review (July 1865).
