Henry 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
“She is written in a foreign tongue.”
Origine: The Portrait of a Lady

William James, "Is Life Worth Living?," The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897).
Misattributed
“The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.”
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!
Origine: Roderick Hudson http://www.gutenberg.org/files/176/176.txt (1875), ch. I: Rowland.
Variante: ... I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say - feel for all you're worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live...
“Deep experience is never peaceful.”
de Mauves http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/mauve10.txtMadame, Galaxy Magazine (February/March 1874), ch. V, reprinted in A Passionate Pilgrim (1875) and later in The Madonna of the Future and Other Tales (1879) and the New York Edition of James' works, vol. 13 (1908).
“It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.”
Hawthorne http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/hjj/nhhj1.html, (1879) ch. I: The Early Years.
“She had a certain way of looking at life which he took as a personal offense.”
Origine: The Portrait of a Lady
“I have never allowed a gentleman to dictate to me, or to interfere with anything I do.”
Origine: Daisy Miller
"Greville Fane" http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext01/gfane10.txt, from The Real Thing: and Other Tales (1893).