Portrait Of A Lady Quotes

#1. The Portrait of a Lady is entirely successful in giving one the sense of having met somebody far too radiantly good for this world.

Rebecca West

#2. I thank Henry James for the scene in the hotel room, that I stole from Portrait Of A Lady This particular scene is the most beautiful scene ever written.

Leos Carax

#3. A trio of reputations lie at the heart of Henry James's 'The Portrait of a Lady.'

Tina Brown

#4. Live as you like best, and your character will take care of itself. Most things are good for you; the exceptions are very rare.

Henry James

#5. The real offense, as she ultimately perceived, was in having a mind of her own at all.

Henry James

#6. Truth is like fire; to tell the truth means to glow and burn.

Gustav Klimt

#7. I was hoping to do an impressionist painting, but I wanted a good likeness and I wanted to create a feeling of the lady as a person, as a human being rather than as a figurehead for the monarchy and a pomp-and-circumstance sort of formal portrait. I wanted more of a relaxed portrait.

Rolf Harris

#8. You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.

Henry James

#9. You have been second always. Tragical?
No. You preferred it to the usual thing:
One dull man, dulling and uxorious,
One average mind- with one thought less, each year.

Ezra Pound

#10. There are a lot of period movies where they say, 'This is a portrait of Lady Whatever.' And it's done in like a 1950s or 60s style.

Guillermo Del Toro