An Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist, poet, short story writer and Freemason.. Irish writer playwright and poet
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To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist -- the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar. Go to Quote / Comment
How pleasant it was in the garden! And how delightful other people's emotions were! -- much more delightful than their ideas, it seemed to him. One's own soul, and the passions of one's friends -- those were the fascinating things in life. He pictured to himself with silent amusement the tedious luncheon that he had missed by staying so long with Basil Hallward. Had be gone to his aunt's, he would have been sure to have met Lord Goodbody there, and the whole conversation would have been about the feeding of the poor and the necessity for model lodging-houses. Each class would have preached the importance of those virtues, for whose exercise there was no necessity in their own lives. The rich would have spoken on the value of thrift, and the idle grown eloquent over the dignity of labour. It was charming to have escaped all that! Go to Quote / Comment
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally. Go to Quote / Comment
Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty. Go to Quote / Comment
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat Go to Quote / Comment