The Ambassadors Quotes

'I'm thinking of his mother,' said Strether after a moment. 'He has darkened her admirable life.' (2.1.19)

The young man seemed to consider. 'Oh I haven't put you through much—yet.' (4.1.12)

[A]nd it was absolutely true of him that—even after the close of the period of conscious detachment occupying the centre of his life, the great middle desert of the two deaths, that of his wife a...

'Oh I don't say but what there are plenty of pretty places and remarkable old things; but the trouble is that I don't seem to feel anywhere in tune.' (1.2.10)

[H]e turned away to find himself, in the hall, facing a lady who met his eyes as with an intention suddenly determined, and whose features—not freshly young, not markedly fine, but on happy terms...

He felt it in a manner his duty to think out his state, to approve the process, and when he came in fact to trace the steps and add up the items they sufficiently accounted for the sum. (2.2.3)

[Paris] hung before him this morning, the vast bright Bablyon, like some huge iridescent object, a jewel brilliant and hard, in which parts were not to be discriminated nor differences comfortably...

The amiable youth [Bilham] then look out, as it has first struck Strether, at a world in respect to which he hadn't a prejudice. (3.2.45)