All Henry James Quotes
- It had been agreed between them that lighted candles at wayside inns, in strange countries amid mountain scenery, gave the evening meal a peculiar poetry. Agreed
- I had an excellent repast - the best repast possible - which consisted simply of boiled eggs and bread and butter. It was the quality… All
- New York is appalling, fantastically charmless and elaborately dire. Appalling
- It is altogether an extraordinary growing, swarming, glittering, pushing, chattering, good-natured, cosmopolitan place, and perhaps in some ways the best imitation of Paris that can… Altogether
- ...the great merit of the place is that one can arrange one's life here exactly as one pleases...there are facilities for every kind of habit… Accepted
- ...The peculiar air of Oxford-the air of liberty to care for the things of the mind assured and secured by machinery which is in itself… Air
- Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure. Dignity
- The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition… Any
- No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles,… Abbey
- The image of the presence, whatever it was, waiting there for him to go -this image had not yet been so concrete for his nerves… All
- One doesn't defend one's god: one's god is in himself a defense. Defend
- The faculty of attention has utterly vanished from the Anglo-Saxon mind, extinguished at its source by the big bayad?re of journalism, of the newspaper and… Advertising
- I recall this passage as the hour of its first fully coming over me that she was a beautiful liberal creature. I had seen her… Air
- She had her own way of doing all that she did, and this is the simplest description of a character which, although by no means… All
- To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text. Book
- Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had… Ask
- I've always expected the worst, and it's always worse than I expected. Always Expected
- I don't care anything about reasons, but I know what I like. Care
- [Thomas Henry] Huxley is a very genial, comfortable being-yet with none of the noisy and windy geniality of some folks here, whom you find with… Backs
- Kidd, turn off the light to spare my blushes. Blushes