Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one's self to an idea. — Henry James Copy Share Image
Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better. — Henry James Copy Share Image
Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history. — Henry James Copy Share Image
A swift carriage, of a dark night, rattling with four horses over roads that one can’t see--that’s my idea of happiness. — Henry James Copy Share Image
We must grant the artist his subject, his idea, his donn´e: our criticism is applied only to what he makes of it. — Henry James Copy Share Image
I don’t think I pity her. She doesn’t strike me as a girl that suggests compassion. I think I envy her... I… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Am I solemn? I had an idea I was grinning from ear to ear." "You look as if you were taking me… — Henry James Copy Share Image
She envied Ralph his dying, for if one were thinking of rest that was the most perfect of all. To cease utterly,… — Henry James Copy Share Image
She envied Ralph his dying, for if one were thinking of rest that was the most perfect of all. To cease utterly,… — Henry James Copy Share Image
My idea is this, that when you only love a little you're naturally not jealous — or are only jealous also a… — Henry James Copy Share Image
My idea is this, that when you only love a little you’re naturally not jealous-or are only jealous also a little, so… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors. — Henry James Copy Share
“In literature we move through a blest world in which we know nothing except by style, but in which everything is saved by it.” — Henry James Copy Share
“I shall stay here as long as I may, I don't want to think — I needn't think. I don't care for anything but… — Henry James Copy Share
“...It often seemed to her that she thought too much about herself, you could have made her blush any day of the year, by… — Henry James Copy Share
“I reflected acutely that the sense of such differences, such superiorities of quality, always, on the part of the majority—which could include even stupid,… — Henry James Copy Share
“She had had a real fright but had fallen back to earth. The odd thing was that in her fall her fear too had… — Henry James Copy Share
“She had never met a woman who had less of that fault which is the principal obstacle to friendship - the air of reproducing… — Henry James Copy Share
If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it. — Henry James Copy Share
It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games — Henry James Copy Share
Make (the reader) think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications. My values are positively all… — Henry James Copy Share
“It was the air she wanted and the world she would now exclusively choose; the quiet chambers, nobly overwhelming, rich but slightly veiled, opened… — Henry James Copy Share
