There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics… — Henry James Copy Share Image
It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before… — Henry James Copy Share Image
She carried within herself a great fund of life, and her deepest enjoyment was to feel the continuity between the movement of… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly… — Henry James Copy Share Image
The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks.… — Henry James Copy Share Image
The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself. — 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
Any point of view is interesting that is a direct impression of life. You each have an impression colored by your individual… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one… — Henry James Copy Share Image
To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it...to think intently and… — Henry James Copy Share Image
It is indeed immensely picturesque. I can fancy sitting all a summer's day watching its shadows shorten and lengthen again, and drawing… — 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
