James > James's Quotes

“I am not deep, but I am very wide.”
― Balzac

“She was like Marat only with nobody to kill her.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them?”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Carry On, Jeeves

“Oh, Ahab! what shall be grand in thee, it must needs be plucked at from the skies, and dived for in the deep, and featured in the unbodied air!”
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick