Henry James Daisy Miller Quotes

#1. I don't get recognized much, and am very happy with that. The fans I have met have all been delightful.

David Walliams

#2. The news that Daisy Miller was surrounded by half a dozen wonderful mustaches checked Winterbourne's impulse to go straightway to see her.

Henry James

#3. Whether or no being hopelessly vulgar is being 'bad' is a question for the metaphysicians.

Henry James

#4. We should allow ourselves all pleasures, real or imaginary.

Marty Rubin

#5. All men think that they're nice guys. Some of them are not. Contact me for a list of names.

Rita Rudner

#6. She was a coquette; he was sure she had a spirit of her own; but in her bright, sweet, superficial little visage there was no mockery, no irony. Before long it became obvious that she was much disposed towards conversation.

Henry James

#7. It was a real treat when he'd read me Daisy Miller out loud. But we'd reached the point in our relationship when, in a straight choice between him and Henry James, I'd have taken Henry James any day even if Henry James were dead and not much of a one for the girls when living, either.

Angela Carter

#8. You know, when you're relaxed, you're putting it out there, and then it comes, oh, I can do that.

Lou Reed

#9. I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.

Antonia Fraser

#10. When I write nonfiction, it's always absolutely true. There will be no moment in my nonfiction where I have made something up and have to apologize to the bullying hostess of a talk show.

Jamaica Kincaid