All Henry James Quotes
- London is on the whole the most possible form of life. City Life
- We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion… Art
- To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it...to think intently and fruitfully, to woo… Attention
- Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup. Americans
- Ideas are, in truth, force. Force
- Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost! Lost
- I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home. Begins
- Live all you can. It's a mistake not to. It doesn't much matter what you do in particular, so much as you LIVE while you're… All
- Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors. Disagreeable
- It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever… Application
- There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. Afternoon
- To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him. All
- Vereker's secret, my dear man - the general intention of his books: the string the pearls were strung on, the buried treasure, the figure in… Books
- Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your… All
- Summer afternoon...Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language. Afternoon