A man who pretends to understand women is ad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
Henry James
Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
Henry James
Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
Henry James
Everything about Florence seems to be colored with a mild violet, like diluted wine.
Henry James
Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.
Henry James
He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
Henry James
I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.
Henry James
I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
Henry James
I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth-I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.
Henry James
I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.
Henry James
Ideas are, in truth, force.
Henry James
If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.
Henry James
It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.
Henry James
It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
Henry James
Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?
Henry James
One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.
Henry James
People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.
Henry James
The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.
Henry James
The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.
Henry James
The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.
Henry James
The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy . what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?
Henry James
The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
Henry James
The terrible fluidity of self-revelation.
Henry James
The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.
Henry James
There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.
Henry James
Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
Henry James
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
Henry James
We work n the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
Henry James
What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
Henry James
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Type:
Writer
Date of Birth:
1843-04-15
Year of Death:
1916
Nationality:
American |
