Henry James idézetek
Henry James: Idézetek angolul
Henry James könyv Hawthorne
Hawthorne, ch. VI: England and Italy.
“It's not my fate to give up--I know it can't be.”
Henry James könyv The Portrait of a Lady
Forrás: The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James könyv The Middle Years
Forrás: The Middle Years
“Her memory's your love. You want no other.”
Henry James könyv The Wings of the Dove
Forrás: The Wings of the Dove
The Art of Fiction http://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/artfiction.html (1884)
The New Novel (1914).
“The terrible fluidity of self-revelation.”
Henry James könyv The Ambassadors
The Ambassadors
Prefaces (1907-1909)
Henry James könyv The Portrait of a Lady
Forrás: The Portrait of a Lady (1881), Ch. XLI
“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).
Henry James könyv What Maisie Knew
What Maisie Knew.
Prefaces (1907-1909)
Henry James könyv The Aspern Papers
The Aspern Papers; The Turn of the Screw; The Liar; The Two Faces.
Prefaces (1907-1909)
Henry James könyv The Spoils of Poynton
The Spoils of Poynton.
Prefaces (1907-1909)
“The full, the monstrous demonstration that Tennyson was not Tennysonian.”
Henry James könyv The Middle Years
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) <br class="br">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.
Henry James könyv The Portrait of a Lady
Forrás: The Portrait of a Lady (1881), Ch. XXIII.
"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.”
Henry James könyv The Portrait of a Lady
Forrás: 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!'".
Henry James könyv The Portrait of a Lady
Forrás: The Portrait of a Lady (1881), Ch. III.
“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).
Henry James könyv What Maisie Knew
What Maisie Knew.
Prefaces (1907-1909)