We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are. — Henry James Copy Share Image
“When it's for each other that people give things up they don't miss them” — Henry James Copy Share Image
I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination. — Henry James Copy Share Image
I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did. — Henry James Copy Share Image
People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course--with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to… — Henry James Copy Share Image
People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave… — Henry James Copy Share Image
There were always people to snatch at you, and it would never occur to them that they were eating you up. They… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all! — Henry James Copy Share Image
I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more… — Henry James Copy Share Image
It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most… — Henry James Copy Share Image
If I should certainly say to a novice, 'Write from experience and experience only,' I should feel that this was rather a… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly… — 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
