Frasi di Henry James (187 frasi, pagina 4)

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

“Non è una bellezza, ma è bella, due cose molto diverse. Una bellezza ha un viso impeccabile, mentre il viso di una bella donna può avere difetti che servono soltanto a intensificare il suo fascino.”

Henry James

1993, p. 43

“In arte l'economia è sempre bellezza.”

Henry James

Origine: Da Le prefazioni.

“Newman guardò per qualche istante la signora Tristram, lisciandosi i baffi.
«È una vera bellezza?» domandò.
«No»
«Oh, allora è inutile…»
«Non è una bellezza, ma una donna bellissima: due cose assai diverse. Una bellezza non ha difetti sul volto; il volto di una donna bellissima può avere dei difetti che non fanno che rendere più profondo il suo fascino».”

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1988, p. 49

“Monsieur sa bene com'è Parigi. Una città pericolosa per la bellezza, quando la bellezza non possiede un sou.”

Henry James

1993, p. 47

Henry James Frasi e Citazioni

“Napoli – una città dove il «piacere» è attivamente coltivato.”

Henry James

p. 268

“Il gentiluomo sul divano era un formidabile esemplare americano. Ma non si limitava ad essere un bell'americano; era in primo luogo, fisicamente, un bell'uomo.”

Henry James

1993, p. 19

“La gente è superba soltanto quando ha qualcosa da perdere, e umile quando ha qualcosa da guadagnare.”

Henry James

1993, p. 80

“Odo ancora, mentre scrivo, l'intenso silenzio in cui si cessarono tutti i suoni della sera. Le cornacchie smisero di gracchiare nel cielo dorato e l’ora amica smarrì, per quell'orribile momento, tutta la sua voce. Ma non ci fu nessun altro cambiamento intorno a me, se cambiamento non era vedere con tanto singolare chiarezza. L’oro luccicava ancora nel cielo, l’aria era limpida e l’uomo che mi osservava da sopra i merli risaltava quanto un ritratto nella sua cornice. Ecco perché pensai, con straordinaria rapidità, a tutti coloro che egli avrebbe potuto essere e che non era. Ci fissammo attraverso lo spazio abbastanza a lungo perché potessi chiedermi ansiosamente chi fosse mai, e provare, dinanzi all'incapacità di rispondervi, uno sbigottimento che, a poco a poco, si faceva sempre più intenso.”

Henry James libro Il giro di vite

The Turn of the Screw

“Forse farò un favore al lettore dicendogli come dovrà trascorrere una settimana a Perugia. La sua prima cura sarà di non aver fretta, di camminare dappertutto molto lentamente e senza meta e di osservare tutto quello che i suoi occhi incontreranno.”

Henry James

Origine: Da Transatlantic Sketches, 1875; citato in Perugia, Guide Electa Umbria, 1993.

“L'uomo sano e saggio non si allontana mai dalla ragione e non si concede nessuno svago se non quello del proprio lavoro.”

Henry James

Origine: Da La lezione dei maestri.

“[Su Isabella Stewart Gardner, a proposito di] quelle sere alla sua mensa e nel suo palco, quei tè nelle sue belle sale coperte di quadri, che mi splendono agli occhi della memoria come vere stazioni di salvezza.”

Henry James

Origine: Citato in Aline B. Saarinen, I grandi collezionisti americani, Einaudi Editore, 1977 da La Lettura, Rizzoli Editore, dicembre 1977.

“È sciocco dubitar di sé stessi come sarebbe dubitare del proprio miglior amico: anzi si deve cercare di essere il proprio migliore amico e di vivere così in eletta compagnia.”

Henry James

p. 48

“[…] essendo infatti uno degli svantaggi dell'esprimere avversione, che voi non potete godere nello stesso tempo il credito dell'esprimer simpatia.”

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p. 484

“Stare a Roma e non far mai una passeggiata a piedi, sarebbe, mi sembra, poco divertente.”

Henry James

p. 251

“Ogni persona porta nella sua religione le caratteristiche della sua natura.”

Henry James

p. 254

“Uno scultore non è un sarto.”

Henry James

p. 275

“Se non fossi venuto a Roma, non mi sarei mai innalzato, e se non mi fossi innalzato, non sarei caduto.”

Henry James

p. 384

“Come dice il proverbio francese, la più bella donna del mondo può dare soltanto ciò che possiede.”

Henry James

1993, p. 40

“Io trovo che si riesce a derivare molto più piacere da questa malinconica esistenza se non si guarda troppo per il sottile.”

Henry James

1993, p. 73

“[…] la passione amorosa separa terribilmente le sue vittime da tutti, tranne che dall'oggetto amoroso”

Henry James libro Ritratto di signora

The Portrait of a Lady

“E non puoi sempre piacere a te stessa, qualche volta devi piacere agli altri! […] ma c'è una cosa che è anche più importante: devi spesso dispiacere agli altri.”

Henry James libro Ritratto di signora

The Portrait of a Lady

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“La consueta salsa di pane del lieto fine.”

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“Inoltre, provo a giudicare le cose da solo; giudicare male, penso, è più onorevole che non giudicare affatto.”

Henry James

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“Ci sono poche cose più eccitanti per me, insomma, di una ragione psicologica.”

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Henry James: Frasi in inglese

“One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.”

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Henry James libro Hawthorne

Hawthorne, ch. II: Early Manhood.

“People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.”

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Said by Mrs. Brookenham in The Awkward Age http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/akage10.txt (1899), book VI, ch. III.

“He would agree that life is a little worth living — or worth living a little; but would remark that, unfortunately, to live little enough, we have to live a great deal.”

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Henry James libro Hawthorne

Hawthorne, ch. V: The Three American Novels.

“Life's too short for chess.”

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Henry James

Henry James Byron, Our Boys (1875), Act I
Misattributed

“She had promised him she would consider his question [of marrying him] […]. But this was not the case; she was wondering if she were not a cold, hard, priggish person, and, on her at last getting up and going rather quickly back to the house, felt, as she had said to her friend, really frightened at herself.”

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Henry James libro Ritratto di signora

Origine: The Portrait of a Lady (1881), Ch. XII.

“I seemed to float not into clearness, but into a darker obscure, and within a minute there had come to me out of my very pity the appalling alarm of his being perhaps innocent. It was for the instant confounding and bottomless, for if he were innocent, what then on earth was I?”

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Henry James libro Il giro di vite

Origine: The Turn of the Screw (1898), Ch. XXIV.

“The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy. Consistency was in itself distinction, and what was talent but the art of being completely whatever it was that one happened to be?”

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Henry James libro The Next Time

"The Next Time," The Yellow Book, vol. VI (July 1895).

“She often wondered indeed if she ever had been, or ever could be, intimate with anyone. She had an ideal of friendship as well as of several other sentiments, which it failed to seem to her in this case – it had not seemed to her in other cases – that the actual completely expressed.”

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Henry James libro Ritratto di signora

Origine: The Portrait of a Lady (1881), Ch. XIX.

“Vereker’s secret, my dear man — the general intention of his books: the string the pearls were strung on, the buried treasure, the figure in the carpet.”

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The Figure in the Carpet http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext96/fgcpt10h.htm (1896).

“There are few things more exciting to me, in short, than a psychological reason.”

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The Art of Fiction http://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/artfiction.html (1884)

“The fatal futility of Fact.”

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Henry James libro The Spoils of Poynton

The Spoils of Poynton.
Prefaces (1907-1909)

“If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.”

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Said to Hamlin Garland in 1906 and quoted by Garland in Roadside Meetings (1930; reprinted by Kessinger Publishing, 2005, ISBN 1-417-90788-6, ch. XXXVI: Henry James at Rye (p. 461).

“I still, in presence of life… have reactions — as many as possible… It's, I suppose, because I am that queer monster, the artist, an obstinate finality, an inexhaustible sensibility. Hence the reactions — appearances, memories, many things, go on playing upon it with consequences that I note and "enjoy" (grim word!) noting. It all takes doing — and I do. I believe I shall do yet again — it is still an act of life.”

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Letter to Henry Adams (21 March 1914).

“It was as if, at moments, we were perpetually coming into sight of subjects before which we must stop short, turning suddenly out of alleys that we perceived to be blind, closing with a little bang that made us look at each other — for, like all bangs, it was something louder than we had intended— the doors we had indiscreetly opened.”

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Henry James libro Il giro di vite

Origine: The Turn of the Screw (1898), Ch. XIII.

“He had picked up his hat, which he had brought in, and stood twirling it in a way that gave me, even as I was just nearly reaching port, a perverse horror of what I was doing. To do it in ANY way was an act of violence, for what did it consist of but the obtrusion of the idea of grossness and guilt on a small helpless creature who had been for me a revelation of the possibilities of beautiful intercourse? Wasn't it base to create for a being so exquisite a mere alien awkwardness? I suppose I now read into our situation a clearness it couldn't have had at the time, for I seem to see our poor eyes already lighted with some spark of a prevision of the anguish that was to come.”

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Henry James libro Il giro di vite

Origine: The Turn of the Screw (1898), Ch. XXIII.

“Mr Touchett used to think that she reminded him of his wife when his wife was in her teens. It was because she was fresh and natural and quick to understand, to speak – so many characteristics of her niece – that he had fallen in love with Mrs Touchett.”

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Henry James libro Ritratto di signora

Origine: The Portrait of a Lady (1881), Ch. VI.

“The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be.”

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Henry James libro Il giro di vite

Introduction.
The Turn of the Screw (1898)

“Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.”

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Henry James libro Washington Square

Washington Square (1881), ch. XIV.

“The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.”

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Variant text: The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does compete with life. <br class="br"> The Art of Fiction http://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/artfiction.html (1884)

“To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.”

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Henry James libro What Maisie Knew

What Maisie Knew.
Prefaces (1907-1909)

“In art economy is always beauty.”

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Henry James libro The Altar of the Dead

The Altar of the Dead.
Prefaces (1907-1909)

“She gave an envious thought to the happier lot of men, who are always free to plunge into the healing waters of action.”

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Henry James libro Ritratto di signora

Origine: The Portrait of a Lady (1881), Ch. XXXVIII

“If the artist is necessarily sensitive, does that sensitiveness form in its essence a state constantly liable to shade off into the morbid? Does this liability, moreover, increase in proportion as the effort is great and the ambition intense?”

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"The Journal of the Brothers de Goncourt," Fortnightly Review (October 1888).

“There are bad manners everywhere, but an aristocracy is bad manners organized.”

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The Point of View HTTP://BOOKS.GOOGLE.COM/books?id=FrQRAAAAYAAJ&q=%22there+are+bad+manners+everywhere+but+an+aristocracy+is+bad+manners+organized%22&pg=PA289#v=onepage (1882)

“Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web, of the finest silken threads, suspended in the chamber of consciousness and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.”

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The Art of Fiction http://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/artfiction.html (1884)

“We are divided of course between liking to feel the past strange and liking to feel it familiar.”

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Henry James libro The Aspern Papers

The Aspern Papers; The Turn of the Screw; The Liar; The Two Faces.
Prefaces (1907-1909)

“I was there to protect and defend the little creatures in the world the most bereaved and the most loveable, the appeal of whose helplessness had suddenly become only too explicit, a deep, constant ache of one's own committed heart. We were cut off, really, together; we were united in our danger. They had nothing but me, and I - well, I had them.”

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Henry James libro Il giro di vite

Origine: The Turn of the Screw (1898), Ch. II.