Henry James Quotes About Reading

Quotes about: Reading

• Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.

  Henry James

  Reading, Epic, Envelopes

  Henry James (2016). “The Portrait of a Lady, Complete: American Literature”, p.42, 谷月社

• One of my latest sensations was going to Lady Airlie's to hear Browning read his own poems - with the comport of finding that, at least, if you don't understand them, he himself apparently understands them even less. He read them as if he hated them and would like to bite them to pieces.

  Henry James

  Reading, Pieces, Hated

• She carried within herself a great fund of life, and her deepest enjoyment was to feel the continuity between the movement of her own heart and the agitations of the world. For this reason, she was fond of seeing great crowds, and large stretches of country, of reading about revolutions and wars, of looking at historical pictures--a class of efforts to which she had often gone so far as to forgive much bad painting for the sake of the subject.

  Henry James

  Country, War, Reading

  Henry James (1882). “The portrait of a lady”

• To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.

  Henry James

  Book, Reading, Read Between The Lines

  Henry James (2016). “Henry James: The Complete Novels [The Portrait of a Lady, The Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl, etc.] (Book House)”, p.928, Book House

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