The Portrait Of A Lady Quotes

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

Tina Brown

#2. 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

#3. I've always wanted to be thrown into the ocean when I die - to be rowed out to sea and thrown overboard into the Atlantic.

Aoife O'Donovan

#4. Dress how you want to be addressed.

Bianca Frazier

#5. 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

#6. Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#7. Lovely morning, World War Two.

Thomas Pynchon

#8. 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

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

Henry James

#10. There comes a time when loneliness is stronger than fear.

Christopher Buehlman

#11. 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

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

Gustav Klimt

#13. These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmen
give themselves away! The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall. But the God created from human vanity sees
no difference between an eagle and a sparrow.

Bram Stoker

#14. Most mothers think that to keep young people away from love-making it is enough never to speak of it in their presence.

Madame De La Fayette

#15. 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

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

Henry James

#17. 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

#18. Reality is, after all, too big for our frail understanding to fully comprehend. Nevertheless, we have to build our life on the theory which contains the maximum truth.We cannot sit still because we cannot, or do not , know the Absolute Truth.

Subhas Chandra Bose

#19. We shall prevail in any problem, if we pray

Lailah Gifty Akita