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Ritratto di signora
Henry James
Il giro di vite
Henry JamesHenry James frasi celebri
“Chiamo ricca la gente ch'è in grado di realizzare gl'impulsi della propria immaginazione.”
The Portrait of a Lady
p. 255
Frasi sulla vita di Henry James
The Portrait of a Lady
Origine: Da L'arte della narrativa; citato in Lilla Maione, introduzione a Robert Louis Stevenson, L'isola del tesoro, traduzione di Lilla Maione, Universale Economica Feltrinelli, X ed., Milano, 2014, p. 31.
Frasi sulla bellezza di Henry James
1988, p. 49
Henry James Frasi e Citazioni
The Turn of the Screw
Origine: Da Transatlantic Sketches, 1875; citato in Perugia, Guide Electa Umbria, 1993.
Origine: Da La lezione dei maestri.
Origine: Citato in Aline B. Saarinen, I grandi collezionisti americani, Einaudi Editore, 1977 da La Lettura, Rizzoli Editore, dicembre 1977.
Henry James: Frasi in inglese
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.”
Origine: Washington Square
“You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.”
Origine: The Portrait of a Lady
“I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination.”
Origine: The Portrait of a Lady
“She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.”
Origine: The Portrait of a Lady
“If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.”
Origine: 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.”
Origine: 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).
Origine: The Ambassadors (1903), book V, ch. II.
Contesto: 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.”
Origine: The Portrait of a Lady