Books Quote by Henry James

Make (the reader) think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications. My values are positively all…

— Henry James

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

— Edward II

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

— E. M. Forster

Cast not yourself away from Evil. Instead, embrace it with open arms, control it and overcome it within your inner self.

— Anonymous

Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start

— Horace

Unfortunately, a human being is able to comprehend only that amount of evil which he is able to commit himself.

— Joseph Brodsky

Well-read people are less likely to be evil.

— Anonymous

War with evil; but show no spirit of malignity toward the man who may be responsible for the evil. Put it out of his…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“The inexperienced reader wants the essentially familiar combined with superficial novelty. Each story must have a slightly new setting or twist or "gimmick," though…

— Laurence Perrine

He asks how the evil is to be remedied. I tell him that there seems to be little chance for avoiding the extremes of…

— Gouverneur Morris

Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.

— Ludwig von Mises

Evil to him who evil thinks.

— Anonymous