Henry James Quote

Summer afternoon — summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.


Quoted by Edith Wharton, A Backward Glance (1934), ch. 10.


Summer afternoon — summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

Summer afternoon — summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

Summer afternoon — summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

Summer afternoon — summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.