--- title: "14 Should Quotes By Henry James" description: "14 Should quotes by Henry James. Plus more from Henry James and more Should sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8c3/henry-james-417_esteem_i-don-t-want-everyone-to-like-me-i-shoul_1752628.png" --- > [I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-james/i-don-t-want-everyone-to-like-me-i-should-think-less-of-myself-if/) [Henry James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-james/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8c3/henry-james-417_esteem_i-don-t-want-everyone-to-like-me-i-shoul_1752628.png) > [Her chief dread in life, at this period of her development, was that she would appear narrow minded; what she feared next…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-james/her-chief-dread-in-life-at-this-period-of-her-development-was-that/) [Henry James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-james/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ac/henry-james-417_chiefs_her-chief-dread-in-life-at-this-period-o_1725989.jpg) > [...he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-james/he-had-long-decided-that-abundant-laughter-should-be-the/) [Henry James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-james/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/33e/henry-james-417_comedy_he-had-long-decided-that-abundant-laught_2866152.png) > [I don't care about anything but you, and that's enough for the present. I want you to be happy--not to think of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-james/i-don-t-care-about-anything-but-you-and-that-s-enough-for-the-present/) [Henry James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-james/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd4/henry-james-417_care_i-don-t-care-about-anything-but-you-and_544699.png) > [Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she should find herself in a difficult position, so that she might have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-james/sometimes-she-went-so-far-as-to-wish-that-she-should-find-herself-in/) [Henry James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-james/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c20/henry-james-417_difficult_sometimes-she-went-so-far-as-to-wish-tha_2152818.png) > [“I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-james/i-hate-american-simplicity-i-glory-in-the-piling-up-of-complications/) [Henry James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-james/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f98/henry-james-417_different_i-hate-american-simplicity-i-glory-in-th_867355.png) > [If I should certainly say to a novice, 'Write from experience and experience only,' I should feel that this was rather a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-james/if-i-should-certainly-say-to-a-novice-write-from-experience-and/) [Henry James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-james/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f6/henry-james-417_add_if-i-should-certainly-say-to-a-novice-wr_606846.jpg) > [One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-james/one-might-enumerate-the-items-of-high-civilization-as-it-exists-in/) [Henry James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-james/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e5c/henry-james-417_absent_one-might-enumerate-the-items-of-high-ci_509575.jpg) > [You seemed to me to be soaring far up in the blue - to be sailing in the bright light, over the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-james/you-seemed-to-me-to-be-soaring-far-up-in-the-blue-to-be-sailing-in/) [Henry James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-james/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f0/henry-james-417_blue_you-seemed-to-me-to-be-soaring-far-up-in_334647.png) > [Am I solemn? I had an idea I was grinning from ear to ear." "You look as if you were taking me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-james/am-i-solemn-i-had-an-idea-i-was-grinning-from-ear-to-ear-you-look-as/) [Henry James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-james/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c3b/henry-james-417_deck_am-i-solemn-i-had-an-idea-i-was-grinning_725024.png) > [She envied Ralph his dying, for if one were thinking of rest that was the most perfect of all. To cease utterly,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-james/she-envied-ralph-his-dying-for-if-one-were-thinking-of-rest-that-was-2/) [Henry James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-james/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/91b/henry-james-417_baths_she-envied-ralph-his-dying-for-if-one-we_2225903.png) > [She envied Ralph his dying, for if one were thinking of rest that was the most perfect of all. To cease utterly,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-james/she-envied-ralph-his-dying-for-if-one-were-thinking-of-rest-that-was/) [Henry James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-james/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/43e/henry-james-417_baths_she-envied-ralph-his-dying-for-if-one-we_1820759.jpg) > [The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-james/the-story-had-held-us-round-the-fire-sufficiently-breathless-but-2/) [Henry James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-james/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/43a/henry-james-417_breathless_the-story-had-held-us-round-the-fire-suf_2043419.png) > [Make the short story tremendously succinct - with a very short pulse or rhythm - and the closest selection of detail -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-james/make-the-short-story-tremendously-succinct-with-a-very-short-pulse-or/) [Henry James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-james/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/45b/henry-james-417_closest_make-the-short-story-tremendously-succin_2256500.png) ## Other authors on Should ## More by Henry James > [Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-james/though-there-are-some-disagreeable-things-in-venice-there-is-nothing/) [Henry James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-james/in-literature-we-move-through-a-blest-world-in-which-we-know-nothing/) [Henry James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-james/i-shall-stay-here-as-long-as-i-may-i-don-t-want-to-think-i-needn-t/) [Henry James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-james/it-often-seemed-to-her-that-she-thought-too-much-about-herself-you/) [Henry James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-james/i-reflected-acutely-that-the-sense-of-such-differences-such/) [Henry James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-james/she-had-had-a-real-fright-but-had-fallen-back-to-earth-the-odd-thing/) [Henry James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-james/) > [I ought to tell you I'm probably your cousin.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-james/i-ought-to-tell-you-i-m-probably-your-cousin/) [Henry James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-james/she-had-never-met-a-woman-who-had-less-of-that-fault-which-is-the/) [Henry James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-james/) > [London is on the whole the most possible form of life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-james/london-is-on-the-whole-the-most-possible-form-of-life/) [Henry James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-james/) > [If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-james/if-you-have-work-to-do-don-t-wait-to-feel-like-it-set-to-work-and-you/) [Henry James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-james/) > [“She answered that she liked standing up and”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-james/she-answered-that-she-liked-standing-up-and/) [Henry James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-james/) > [It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-james/it-is-no-wonder-he-wins-every-game-he-has-never-done-a-thing-in-his/) [Henry James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-james/make-the-reader-think-the-evil-make-him-think-it-for-himself-and-you/) [Henry James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-james/it-was-the-air-she-wanted-and-the-world-she-would-now-exclusively/) [Henry James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-james/) > [The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-james/the-time-honored-bread-sauce-of-the-happy-ending/) [Henry James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-james/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/should/henry-james/#itemlist", "name": "14 Should Quotes By Henry James", "numberOfItems": 14, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Henry James" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-james/i-don-t-want-everyone-to-like-me-i-should-think-less-of-myself-if/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8c3/henry-james-417_esteem_i-don-t-want-everyone-to-like-me-i-shoul_1752628.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8c3/henry-james-417_esteem_i-don-t-want-everyone-to-like-me-i-shoul_1752628.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8c3/henry-james-417_esteem_i-don-t-want-everyone-to-like-me-i-shoul_1752628.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.” — Henry James", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Her chief dread in life, at this period of her development, was that she would appear narrow minded; what she feared next afterwards was that she should be so.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Henry James" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-james/her-chief-dread-in-life-at-this-period-of-her-development-was-that/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ac/henry-james-417_chiefs_her-chief-dread-in-life-at-this-period-o_1725989.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ac/henry-james-417_chiefs_her-chief-dread-in-life-at-this-period-o_1725989.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ac/henry-james-417_chiefs_her-chief-dread-in-life-at-this-period-o_1725989.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Her chief dread in life, at this period of her development, was that she would appear narrow minded; what…” — Henry James", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "...he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Henry James" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-james/he-had-long-decided-that-abundant-laughter-should-be-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/33e/henry-james-417_comedy_he-had-long-decided-that-abundant-laught_2866152.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/33e/henry-james-417_comedy_he-had-long-decided-that-abundant-laught_2866152.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/33e/henry-james-417_comedy_he-had-long-decided-that-abundant-laught_2866152.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“...he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.” — Henry James", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I don't care about anything but you, and that's enough for the present. 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I had an idea I was grinning from ear to ear.\" \"You look as if you were taking me to a prayer-meeting or a funeral. If that's a grin your ears are very near together.\" \"Should you like me to dance a hornpipe on the deck?\" \"Pray do, and I'll carry round your hat. It'll pay the expenses of our journey.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Henry James" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-james/am-i-solemn-i-had-an-idea-i-was-grinning-from-ear-to-ear-you-look-as/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c3b/henry-james-417_deck_am-i-solemn-i-had-an-idea-i-was-grinning_725024.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c3b/henry-james-417_deck_am-i-solemn-i-had-an-idea-i-was-grinning_725024.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c3b/henry-james-417_deck_am-i-solemn-i-had-an-idea-i-was-grinning_725024.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Am I solemn? 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