Henry James nejznámější citáty
Zdroj: [Ackroyd, Peter, Peter Ackroyd, Benátky - příběh nejromatičtějšího města na Zemi, BBart, Praha, 2010, Věčné téma: žena, 252, česky]
Henry James: Citáty o životě
„V životě je jen pár hodin, které jsou příjemnější než doba zasvěcená rituálu zvanému čaj o páté.“
Zdroj: [Arcimovičová, Jana, Vůně čaje, Start, 1998, 80-902005-9-1, 35, česky]
Henry James: Citáty anglicky
Overheard by his nephew, Billy James, in 1902; quoted in Leon Edel, Henry James: A Life, vol V: The Master 1901-1916 (1972).
Henry James kniha The Portrait of a Lady
Zdroj: The Portrait of a Lady (1881), Ch. XXIII.
Henry James kniha Washington Square
Washington Square, ch. XV.
“Don’t underestimate the value of irony—it is extremely valuable.”
Henry James kniha Washington Square
Zdroj: Washington Square
“You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.”
Henry James kniha The Portrait of a Lady
Zdroj: The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James kniha The Middle Years
Zdroj: The Middle Years (1893).
Henry James kniha The Portrait of a Lady
Zdroj: The Portrait of a Lady
“I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination.”
Henry James kniha The Portrait of a Lady
Zdroj: The Portrait of a Lady
“She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.”
Henry James kniha The Portrait of a Lady
Zdroj: The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James kniha The Portrait of a Lady
Zdroj: The Portrait of a Lady (1881), Ch. XVI.
“If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.”
Henry James kniha The Portrait of a Lady
Zdroj: The Portrait of a Lady
"Nathaniel Hawthorne" in Library of the World's Best Literature, vol. XII (1897), ed. Charles Dudley Warner.
Henry James kniha The Portrait of a Lady
Zdroj: The Portrait of a Lady
“Love has nothing to do with good reasons.”
Henry James kniha The Portrait of a Lady
Zdroj: The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James kniha Washington Square
Zdroj: Washington Square
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).
Henry James kniha The Portrait of a Lady
Zdroj: The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James kniha The Portrait of a Lady
Zdroj: The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James kniha The Portrait of a Lady
Zdroj: The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James kniha The Ambassadors
Zdroj: The Ambassadors (1903), book V, ch. II.
Kontext: 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.”
Henry James kniha The Portrait of a Lady
Zdroj: The Portrait of a Lady
“Try to be one of those on whom nothing is lost.”
Zdroj: The Art of Fiction
