It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. — 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
Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. — Henry James Copy Share Image
There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. — Henry James Copy Share Image
She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering. — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Make up to a good one and marry here, and your life will become much more interesting.” — 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
“Everything had something behind it: life was like a long corridor with rows of closed doors.” — Henry James Copy Share Image
“upon, having—as I at least supposed—a life of his own and tastes and habits which had long since diverted him from the… — 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
“Our relation, all round, exists--it's a reality, and a very good one; we're mixed up, so to speak, and it's too late… — Henry James Copy Share Image
...I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say - feel for all you're worth, and even if… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Imprimis: I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Living as he now lived was like reading a good book in a poor translation – a meagre entertainment for a young… — Henry James Copy Share Image
One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Every governmental institution has been a standing testimony to the harmonic destiny of society, a standing proof that the life of man… — Henry James Copy Share Image
The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .The success of a work of art, to my mind, may… — Henry James Copy Share Image
She carried within herself a great fund of life, and her deepest enjoyment was to feel the continuity between the movement of… — 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
“I know at least what I am,' he simply went on; 'the other side of the medal's clear enough. I've not been… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“She had a great desire for knowledge, but she really preferred almost any source of information to the printed page; she had… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Who was she, what was she that she should hold herself superior? What view of life, what design upon fate, what conception… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“She had never yet encountered a personage so exotic, and she always felt more at ease in the presence of anything strange.… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“To believe in a child is to believe in the future. Through their aspirations they will save the world. With their combined… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful,… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“She sat with great intensity, giving the whole of her mind to it, and was capable of remaining for an hour almost… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“It was one of the secret opinions, such as we all have, of Peter Brench, that his main success in life would… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Its clear friendliness seemed to ring out audibly amid this appalling hush of the harmonies of life. “I wish you might know… — 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
It doesn't matter what you do in particular, so long as you have had your life. — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Be not afraid of life believe that life is worth living and your belief will create the fact.” — 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
