“There are two kinds of taste in the appreciation of imaginative literature: the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“The real offense, as she ultimately perceived, was her having a mind of her own at all.” — Henry James Copy Share Image
You think too much.' 'I suppose I do; but I can’t help it, my mind is so terribly active. When I give… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Which of my two critics was I to believe? I didn't worry about it and very soon made up my mind they… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Europe was best described, to his mind, as an elaborate engine for dissociating the confined American from that indispensable knowledge, and was… — Henry James Copy Share Image
It exhibits the effort of an essentially prosaic mind to lift itself, by a prolonged muscular strain, into poetry. — Henry James Copy Share Image
The faculty of attention has utterly vanished from the Anglo-Saxon mind, extinguished at its source by the big bayad?re of journalism, of… — Henry James Copy Share Image
The effect, if not the prime office, of criticism is to make our absorption and our enjoyment of the things that feed… — 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
...The peculiar air of Oxford-the air of liberty to care for the things of the mind assured and secured by machinery which… — 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
“Don't mind anything any one tells you about any one else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.” — Henry James Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition. — Henry James Copy Share Image
He valued life and literature equally for the light they threw upon each other; to his mind one implied the other; he… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“By the time she had grown sharper,..., she found in her mind a collection of images and echoes to which meanings were… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“She was a young person of many theories; her imagination was remarkably active. It had been her fortune to possess a finer… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“To her mind there was nothing of the infinite about Mrs. Penniman; Catherine saw her all at once, as it were, and… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“We know too much about people in these days; we hear too much. Our ears, our minds, our mouths, are stuffed with… — Henry James Copy Share Image
The deepest quality of a work of art will always be the quality of the mind of the producer...No good novel will… — 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
