Famous quotes containing the words james, gordon and/or bennett:
“She had an unequalled gift ... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)
“Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind!
Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art,”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin’s lot.”
—Arnold Bennett (1867–1931)