Beauty Quote by Virginia Woolf

[Henry] James is much more complex than Jane Austen. That's why it's not so easy to adapt him. People expect a nice period piece,…

— Agnieszka Holland

That is the mystery: Reading Henry James can yield prose that is contrary to James, yet inspired by him. Who can understand this?

— Joyce Carol Oates

There are a lot of parallels between the historical Henry VIII and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. There's an oscillation and extremity of emotion throughout his…

— Natalie Dormer

“To him food was identity, culture, family, how you define home and love and who you are - all of it at once....It's not…

— Bridget Asher

“Henry’s a perfectionist, I mean, really-really kind of inhuman — very brilliant, very erratic and enigmatic. He’s a stiff, cold person, Machiavellian, ascetic and…

— Donna Tartt

“The swing of his nature took him from extreme languor to devouring energy; and as I knew well, he was never so truly formidable…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

And it's impossible for me to read Henry James.

— Norman MacCaig

“He knew full well, from his Spencer, that man can never attain ultimate knowledge of anything, and that the mystery of beauty was no…

— Jack London

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

— Tina Brown

Like so many things Henry had wanted in life -- like his father, his marriage, his life -- it had arrived a little damaged.…

— Jamie Ford

This insistence on "having his say upon the universe" is the profoundest motive of William James thinking as well as of his filial gratitude.

— Ralph Barton Perry

The importance of the romantic element does not rest upon conjecture. Pleasing testimonies abound. Hannah More traced her earliest impressions of virtue to works…

— Robert Aris Willmott