Цитаты из книги автора Henry James The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1

All I offer you is the chance of taking the common lot in a comfortable sort of way. The common lot? Why, I'm devoted to the common lot!

"I don't think it presumptuous in me to suggest that you'll gain more than you'll lose,"

"it's rather a striking name."

He returned this challenge a moment, consciously, resisting an inclination to frown as one frowns in the presence of larger luminaries.

resisting an inclination to frown as one frowns in the presence of larger luminaries

These things cannot be reasoned about, and I very earnestly entreat you not to return to the subject we discussed so exhaustively.

I am really and truly not, able to regard you in the light of a companion for life; or to think of your home—your various homes—as the settled seat of my existence.

A great deal of earnest thought has not led me to change my mind about the suggestion you were so kind as to make me the other day.

Her father had a large way of looking at life

The poor girl liked to be thought clever, but she hated to be thought bookish; she used to read in secret and, though her memory was excellent, to abstain from showy reference.