“It has not been a successful life.' 'No -- it has only been a beautiful one.” — Henry James Copy Share Image
I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process. — Henry James Copy Share Image
“It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, and I know of no substitute for the force and beauty of… — Henry James Copy Share Image
I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I'm… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Supreme beauty suddenly revealed is apt to strike us as a possible illusion playing with our desire—instant freedom with it to strike… — Henry James Copy Share Image
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Art does not lie in copying nature.- Nature furnishes the material by means of which is to express a beauty still unexpressed… — Henry James Copy Share Image
There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“She was a plain-faced old woman, without graces and without any great elegance, but with an extreme respect for her own motives.… — 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
“The picture had no flourishes, but she liked its lowness of tone and the atmosphere of summer twilight that pervaded it. It… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“...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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games — Henry James Copy Share Image
