Famous quotes containing the words james and/or valley:
“She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)
“I will frankly declare, that after passing a few weeks in this valley of the Marquesas, I formed a higher estimate of human nature than I had ever before entertained. But alas! since then I have been one of the crew of a man-of-war, and the pent-up wickedness of five hundred men has nearly overturned all my previous theories.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)