All Henry James Quotes
- Novelist-Citizen of Two Countries Interpreter of his Generation on both Sides of the Sea. Both
- The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one… Art
- A solitary maple on a woodside flames in single scarlet, recalls nothing so much as the daughter of a noble house dressed for a fancy… Admire
- He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease. Fizzing
- The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending. Bread
- The fatal futility of Fact. Fact
- Women never dine alone. When they dine alone they don't dine. Alone
- Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all! All
- In art economy is always beauty. Always Beauty
- That accurst autobiographic form which puts a premium on the loose, the improvised, the cheap, and the easy. Accurst
- One of my latest sensations was going to Lady Airlie's to hear Browning read his own poems - with the comport of finding that, at… Apparently
- We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are. Care
- I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up… Blackly
- Make him [the reader] think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications. Evil
- What is either a picture or a novel that is not character? Character
- Writing is not primarily escape, but use. Escape
- The deepest quality of a work of art will always be the quality of the mind of the producer...No good novel will ever proceed from… Art
- I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse. Bleeding
- Of course what he most intensely dreams of is being taken out on walks, and the more you are able to indulge him the more… Able
- We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generosity. Generosity
- An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue. Englishman
- Until you try, you don't know what you can't do. Funny
- It is indeed immensely picturesque. I can fancy sitting all a summer's day watching its shadows shorten and lengthen again, and drawing a delicious contrast… All
- The "germ," wherever gathered, has ever been for me, "the germ of a story," and most of the stories strained to shape under my hand… Been
- His kiss was like white lightning, a flash that spread, and spread again, and stayed. Flash