“It's all a mere mistake and a worry and a joke—and we'll go home as fast as we can!” — Henry James Copy Share Image
“I'm a perfectly equipped failure. (...) 'Thank goodness you're a failure- it's why I so distinguish you! Anything else to-day is too… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“He himself was almost never bored, and there was no man with whom it would have been a greater mistake to suppose… — Henry James Copy Share Image
She had an unequalled gift, usually pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into opportunities. — Henry James Copy Share Image
“When the possibilities themselves had accordingly turned stale, when the secret of the gods had grown faint, had perhaps even quite evaporated,… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“So then she had to take it, though still with her defeated protest. "It isn't so much your BEING 'right'--it's your horrible… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“I don't know why we live—the gift of life comes to us from I don't know what source or for what purpose;… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as… — Henry James Copy Share Image
She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities. — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular so long as… — Henry James Copy Share Image
All the same don't forget that you're young — blessedly young; be glad of it on the contrary and live up to… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Live all you can. It's a mistake not to. It doesn't much matter what you do in particular, so much as you… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Live all you can: it's a mistake not to. It doesn't matter what you do in particular, so long as you have… — 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
