We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art...what we are talking about and the only way to know is… — 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
She had her own way of doing all that she did, and this is the simplest description of a character which, although… — Henry James Copy Share Image
It is altogether an extraordinary growing, swarming, glittering, pushing, chattering, good-natured, cosmopolitan place, and perhaps in some ways the best imitation of… — Henry James Copy Share Image
My idea is this, that when you only love a little you're naturally not jealous — or are only jealous also a… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James… — Henry James Copy Share Image
...I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say - feel for all you're worth, and even if… — Henry James Copy Share Image
There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something… — Henry James Copy Share Image
My idea is this, that when you only love a little you’re naturally not jealous-or are only jealous also a little, so… — Henry James Copy Share Image
It was the way the autumn day looked into the high windows as it waned; the way the red light, breaking at… — Henry James Copy Share Image
The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the… — Henry James Copy Share Image
She had a certain way of looking at life which he took as a personal offense. — Henry James Copy Share Image
Take the word for it of a man who has made his way inch by inch, and does not believe that we'll… — 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
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
