All Henry James Quotes
- You wanted to look at life for yourself - but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the… Allowed
- The women one meets - what are they but books one has already read? You're a library of the unknown, the uncut. Upon my word… Already Read
- Don’t underestimate the value of irony—it is extremely valuable. Don T
- I don't care about anything but you, and that's enough for the present. I want you to be happy--not to think of anything sad; only… Anything Sad
- I'm yours for ever--for ever and ever. Here I stand; I'm as firm as a rock. If you'll only trust me, how little you'll be… Disappointed
- She envied Ralph his dying, for if one were thinking of rest that was the most perfect of all. To cease utterly, to give it… All
- She had an unequalled gift, usually pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into opportunities. Big
- I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did. Esteem
- She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table. Courses
- I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination. Able
- She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth. Blue
- It's time to start living the life you've imagined. Acting
- I have in my own fashion learned the lesson that life is effort, unremittingly repeated. Effort
- We work in the dark -- we do what we can -- we give what we have. Dark
- You seemed to me to be soaring far up in the blue - to be sailing in the bright light, over the heads of men.… Blue
- ...I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say - feel for all you're worth, and even if it half kills… All
- One can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant. Addition
- Nothing, of course, will ever take the place of the good old fashion of 'liking' a work of art or not liking it; the more… Abolish
- It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games Every Game
- There were always people to snatch at you, and it would never occur to them that they were eating you up. They did that without… Always People
- Make (the reader) think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications. My values are positively all blanks,… All
- True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay… Absorbing
- He valued life and literature equally for the light they threw upon each other; to his mind one implied the other; he was unable to… Apart
- You are good for nothing unless you are clever. Clever
- Things are always different from what they might be. Always Different