All Henry James Quotes
- Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic. Cloudy
- My idea is this, that when you only love a little you’re naturally not jealous-or are only jealous also a little, so that it doesn’t… Abysmal
- Never say you know the last word about any human heart. Any
- When I am wicked I am in high spirits. High
- If this was love, love had been overrated. Been
- She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS. Capitals
- To say that she had a book is to say that her solitude did not press upon her; for her love of knowledge had a… Arrival
- She is written in a foreign tongue. Foreign
- She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering. Constantly
- She carried within herself a great fund of life, and her deepest enjoyment was to feel the continuity between the movement of her own heart… Agitation
- I don’t think I pity her. She doesn’t strike me as a girl that suggests compassion. I think I envy her... I don’t know whether… Air
- The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks. She spent half… Action
- Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she should find herself in a difficult position, so that she might have the pleasure of… Demanded
- Her chief dread in life, at this period of her development, was that she would appear narrow minded; what she feared next afterwards was that… Afterwards
- ...he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days. Abundant
- ...and the great advantage of being a literary woman, was that you could go everywhere and do everything. Advantage
- If one is strong, one loves the more strongly. Inspirational
- A swift carriage, of a dark night, rattling with four horses over roads that one can’t see--that’s my idea of happiness. Carriage
- Things are always different than what they might be...If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything. Always Different
- Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to… Apt
- It's never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools. Aberration
- Her memory's your love. You want no other. Inspirational
- To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and… Actual
- I ought to tell you I'm probably your cousin. Cousin
- Sorrow comes in great waves...but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us. And we know that if it is… Great