“I shall stay here as long as I may, I don't want to think — I needn't think. I don't care for… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Of course I was under the spell, and the wonderful part is that, even at the time, I perfectly knew I was.… — 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
To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“...his heart had positively begun to beat to the time of suspense...The unspoken had come up, and there was a crisis -… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“I would live for you still—if I could.” Her eyes closed for a little, as if, withdrawn into herself, she were for… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“ten o’clock!” “What does it matter when my things are put up?” the young man said. “There’s no crowd at this moment;… — Henry James Copy Share Image
London doesn't love the latent or the lurking, has neither time, nor taste, nor sense for anything less discernible than the red… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“She knew even intimate things about him that he hadn't yet told her and perhaps never would. He wasn't unaware that he… — Henry James Copy Share Image
There are women who are for all your 'times of life.' They're the most wonderful sort. — Henry James Copy Share Image
“He gave a melancholy sigh and stood looking at her a moment, with his hands behind him, giving short nervous shakes to… — 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
“He had thought, no doubt, from the day he was born, much more than he had acted; except indeed that he remembered… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Besides, he was a philosopher; he smoked a good many cigars over his disappointment, and in the fulness of time he got… — 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
“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
“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
“It wouldn't be the first time she had seen herself obliged to accept with smothered irony other people's interpretation of her conduct.… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Well, I am rather afraid of that visit," said Clifford. "It seems to me it will be rather like going to school… — 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
“I suspect that the age of letters is waning, for our time. It is the age of Panama Canals, of Sandra Bernhardt,… — 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
