Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
Henry JamesWhen I am wicked I am in high spirits.
Henry JamesTags: wicked
If this was love, love had been overrated.
Henry JamesTags: love
She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
Henry JamesThe house had a name and a history; the old gentleman taking his tea would have been delighted to tell you these things: how it had been built under Edward the Sixth, had offered a night's hospitality to the great Elizabeth (whose august person had extended itself upon a huge, magnificent and terribly angular bed which still formed the principal honour of the sleeping apartments), had been a good deal bruised and defaced in Cromwell's wars, and then, under the Restoration, repaired and much enlarged; and how, finally, after having been remodeled and disfigured in the eighteenth century, it had passed into the careful keeping of a shrewd American banker, who had bought it originally because (owing to circumstances too complicated to set forth) it was offered at a great bargain: bought it with much grumbling at its ugliness, its antiquity, its incommodity, and who now, at the end of twenty years, had become conscious of a real aesthetic passion for it, so that he know all its points and would tell you just where to stand to see them in combination and just the hour when the shadows of its various protuberances--which fell so softly upon the warm, weary brickwork--were of the right measure.
Henry JamesTags: glorious-sentences
Try to be one of those on whom nothing is lost.
Henry JamesShe is written in a foreign tongue.
Henry JamesShe had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
Henry JamesTags: curiosity
His physiognomy had an air of requesting your attention, which it rewarded or not, according to the charm you found in a blue eye of remarkable fixedness and a jaw of somewhat angular mold, which is supposed to bespeak resolution.
Henry James...he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
Henry JamesTags: inspirational-laughter
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