« All Probable Quotes
·
Henry James's Page
Probable Quotes by Henry James
1 Probable quote by Henry James
More Quotes by Henry James
Henry James has 200 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American…
-
A solitary maple on a woodside flames in single scarlet, recalls nothing so much as the daughter of a noble house dressed…
-
He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
-
We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generosity.
-
The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas…
-
...the great merit of the place is that one can arrange one's life here exactly as one pleases...there are facilities for every…
-
The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the…
-
No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no…
See all 200 quotes by Henry James »
More Probable Quotes
Popular Probable quotes from across the collection:
-
Gentlemen, I have lived a long time and am convinced that God governs in the affairs of men. If a sparrow cannot…
— Benjamin Franklin
-
If one considers more than need on how others feel, it is probable that in their past someone was seldom pleased with…
— Senoraroy
-
The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental…
— Charles Darwin
-
It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits.…
— Aristotle
-
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
— Jorge Luis Borges
-
I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a…
— Bertrand Russell
-
Not only are three-putt greens probable, at times they are an achievment.
— Charley Pride
-
The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.
— Hannah Arendt
See all Probable Quotes »
Check Out More Probable Quotes by Other Authors
Browse Henry James Quotes by Category