... since she might not be splendid, she would at least be immaculate. — Henry James Copy Share Image
“All roads lead to Rome, and there were times when it might have struck us that almost every branch of study or… — 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
Things are always different than what they might be...If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything. — Henry James Copy Share Image
Though it might have its momentary alarms, paternity is not an exciting vocation. — Henry James Copy Share Image
Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she should find herself in a difficult position, so that she might have… — Henry James Copy Share Image
No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no… — Henry James Copy Share Image
It might seem that an egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can reasonably be expected of it. — Henry James Copy Share Image
Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette;… — Henry James Copy Share Image
I had an excellent repast - the best repast possible - which consisted simply of boiled eggs and bread and butter. 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
