Novel Quotes by Henry James

Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.

— Henry James

“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

“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

“...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

“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

“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

I ought to tell you I'm probably your cousin.

— Henry James

“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

London is on the whole the most possible form of life.

— Henry James

If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.

— Henry James

“She answered that she liked standing up and”

— Henry James

It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games

— Henry James

Make (the reader) think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications. My values are positively all…

— Henry James

“It was the air she wanted and the world she would now exclusively choose; the quiet chambers, nobly overwhelming, rich but slightly veiled, opened…

— Henry James

The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.

— Henry James