Henry James Quotes
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Henry James Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
The news that Daisy Miller was surrounded by half a dozen wonderful mustaches checked Winterbourne's impulse to go straightway to see her.
Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
When you are embarrassed, do as you think best, and you will do very well. When you are in a difficulty, judge for yourself.
One should try to be one's own best friend and to give one's self, in this manner, distinguished company.
Sea. I was even glad of what I had learned in the afternoon at the office of the company - that at the eleventh
Still, who could say what men ever were looking for? They looked for what they found; they knew what pleased them only when they saw it.
Was after all a rather mature blossom, such as could be plucked from the stem only by a vigorous jerk.
It was the truth, vivid and monstrous, that all the while he had waited the wait was itself his portion.
Besides, he was a philosopher; he smoked a good many cigars over his disappointment, and in the
fulness of time he got used to it.
fulness of time he got used to it.
It exhibits the effort of an essentially prosaic mind to lift itself, by a prolonged muscular strain, into poetry.
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, and I know of no substitute for the force and beauty of it's process.
Anger does not last, that way, for years. But there are other things. Impressions last, when they have been strong.
Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.
Live as you like best, and your character will take care of itself. Most things are good for you; the exceptions are very rare.
She gave an envious thought to the happier lot of men, who are always free to plunge into the healing waters of action.
He had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
There were always people to snatch at you, and it would never occur to them that they were eating you up. They did that without tasting.
was all very interesting." She continued to look at me. "You don't think that," she then simply stated. "What have I to gain
absence was a sign that when it might be a question of gratifying him she had grown used to spare no pains, and I fancied her rummaging in some
One need not be a rabid Anglican to be extremely sensible to the charm of an English country church ...
It wouldn't have been failure to be bankrupt, dishonoured, pilloried, hanged; it was failure not to be anything.