We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art...what we are talking about and the only way to know is… — Henry James Copy Share Image
We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are. — 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
I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process. — 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
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
