All Henry James Quotes
- We must grant the artist his subject, his idea, his donn´e: our criticism is applied only to what he makes of it. Applied
- If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other… America
- To treat a big subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening's traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each… Big
- All intimacies are based on differences. All
- The artist beholds in nature more than she herself Nature is conscious of. Art
- To believe in a child is to believe in the Future. Believe
- Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize. Always Pursue
- She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy! Alternating
- The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an… Breathless
- Everything about Florence seems to be colored with a mild violet, like diluted wine. Colored
- Little by little, even with other cares, the slowly but surely working poison of the garden-mania begins to stir in my long-sluggish veins. Begins
- Experience is never limited, and it is never complete Complete
- It doesn't matter what you do in particular, so long as you have had your life. Inspirational
- It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance. Art
- Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation. Infinite
- 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