Daisy Miller: A Study Quotes

“I have never allowed a gentleman to dictate to me, or to interfere with anything I do.”

″‘I have always had,’ she said, ‘a great deal of gentlemen’s society.‘”

“I’m dying to be exclusive myself.”

“Of course a man may know every one. Men are welcome to the privilege!”

“She was a young lady whom a gentleman need no longer be at pains to respect.”

“I haven’t the least idea what such young ladies expect a man to do. But I really think that you had better not meddle with little American girls that are uncultivated, as you call them. You have lived too long out of the country. You will be sure to make some great mistake.”

“When his friends spoke of him, they usually said that he was at Geneva “studying.” When his enemies spoke of him, they said—but, after all, he had no enemies; he was an extremely amiable fellow, and universally liked.”

″‘But don’t they all do these things--the young girls in America?’ Winterbourne inquired. Mrs. Costello stared a moment. ‘I should like to see my granddaughters do them!’ she declared grimly. This seemed to throw some light upon the matter, for Winterbourne remembered to have heard that his pretty cousins in New York were ‘tremendous flirts.‘”

″‘I think you had better not go out in a boat, mademoiselle,’ Eugenio declared. Winterbourne wished to Heaven this pretty girl were not so familiar with her courier; but he said nothing. ‘I suppose you don’t think it’s proper!’ Daisy exclaimed. ‘Eugenio doesn’t think anything’s proper.‘”

“He had a pleasant sense that he should never be afraid of Daisy Miller.”