All Henry James Quotes
- Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. Afternoon
- Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. Afternoon
- Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended… Air
- It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition. Amount
- The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life. Attempt
- However British you may be, I am more British still. British
- The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have. Any
- The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman. Great
- What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character? Character
- I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I… Age
- A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals. Bad
- To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it… Appreciate
- Life is a predicament which precedes death. Death
- It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the… Acceptance
- Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there. All
- I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect. Adore
- People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You… Alone
- One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it… Absent
- The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its… American
- He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening… Aesthetic
- I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all. All
- I always want to know the things one shouldn't do." "So as to do them?" asked her aunt. "So as to choose." said Isabel Always Want
- Don't pass it by--the immediate, the real, the only, the yours. Funny
- My father ain't in Europe; my father's in a better place than Europe." Winterbourne imagined for a moment that this was the manner in which… Added
- Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history. Always Makes