Dzieło
Portret damy
Henry JamesHenry James słynne cytaty
o Stonehenge.
Źródło: Rosemary Burton, Richard Cavendish, Cuda Świata. Przewodnik po skarbach cywilizacji
w liście do przyjaciela z 1914, nazajutrz po wypowiedzeniu wojny Niemcom przez Wielką Brytanię.
Źródło: Howard Zinn, Ludowa historia Stanów Zjednoczonych. Od roku 1492 do dziś, tłum. Andrzej Wojtasik, Wyd. Krytyki Politycznej, Warszawa 2016, s. 465.
Henry James: Cytaty po angielsku
Overheard by his nephew, Billy James, in 1902; quoted in Leon Edel, Henry James: A Life, vol V: The Master 1901-1916 (1972).
“Don’t underestimate the value of irony—it is extremely valuable.”
Źródło: Washington Square
“You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.”
Źródło: The Portrait of a Lady
“I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination.”
Źródło: The Portrait of a Lady
“She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.”
Źródło: The Portrait of a Lady
“If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.”
Źródło: The Portrait of a Lady
"Nathaniel Hawthorne" in Library of the World's Best Literature, vol. XII (1897), ed. Charles Dudley Warner.
“Love has nothing to do with good reasons.”
Źródło: The Portrait of a Lady
Quoted by Edith Wharton, A Backward Glance (1934), ch. 10.
“I'm glad you like adverbs — I adore them; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.”
Letter to Miss M. Betham Edwards (5 January 1912).
Źródło: The Ambassadors (1903), book V, ch. II.
Kontekst: Live all you can — it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?.. What one loses one loses; make no mistake about that... The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.. Live!
“And remember this, that if you've been hated, you've also been loved.”
Źródło: The Portrait of a Lady