The Portrait of a Lady Quotes

“Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out of the window.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

topic:imagination

“I never did anything in life to any one's imagination.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

topic:imagination

“I always want to know the things one shouldn't do . . . So as to choose”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

topic:moralitychoice

“Don't mind anything any one tells you about any one else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

topic:judgementopinion

“She had always been fond of history, and here was history in the stones of the street and the atoms of the sunshine.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

topic:history

“I must say I think patriotism is like charity—it begins at home.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

topic:home

“It’s her general air of being some one in particular that strikes me.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

topic:personality

“Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she might find herself some day in a difficult position, so that she should have the pleasure of being as heroic as the occasion demanded.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

topic:difficulty