Skip to content

Advantage Quote by Henry James

“The advantage, the luxury, as well as the torment and responsibility of the novelist, is that there is no limit to what he may attempt as an executant - no limit to his possible experiments, efforts, discoveries, successes.” quote by Henry James — Download Open image

“The advantage, the luxury, as well as the torment and responsibility of the novelist, is that there is no limit to what he may attempt as an executant - no limit to his possible experiments, efforts, discoveries, successes.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (7 ratings)

Advantage Discovery Effort Experiments Limits Luxury May Novelists Responsibility Success Torment Wells

More by Henry James

Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.

Image

“In literature we move through a blest world in which we know nothing except by style, but in which everything is saved by it.”

Image

“I shall stay here as long as I may, I don't want to think — I needn't think. I don't care for anything but…

Image

“...It often seemed to her that she thought too much about herself, you could have made her blush any day of the year, by…

Image

“I reflected acutely that the sense of such differences, such superiorities of quality, always, on the part of the majority—which could include even stupid,…

Image

“She had had a real fright but had fallen back to earth. The odd thing was that in her fall her fear too had…

Image

I ought to tell you I'm probably your cousin.

Image

“She had never met a woman who had less of that fault which is the principal obstacle to friendship - the air of reproducing…

Image

London is on the whole the most possible form of life.

Image

If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.

Image

“She answered that she liked standing up and”

Image

It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games

Image

Explore all 571 Henry James quotes

More Advantage quotes

Dogmatists have one advantage: they are poor listeners.

Image

Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],…

Abraham Lincoln

Image

Talented people can predict with great accuracy what's about to happen just a tiny bit ahead of their competitors. It might be two seconds…

Image

All I ever wanted was an unfair advantage

Image

Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you find. It's…

Image

I was born with a silver microphone in my mouth, and that was an advantage. My father wrote books and was also a great…

Jonathan Dimbleby

Image

Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage.

Image

For some reason when I decide to pursue something, I never have any fear that it won't happen. I think it's just ingrained in…

Image

I think I have good hands, so I try to use them to my advantage.

Bianca Andreescu

Image

My influences are jazz, blues, European classical music; they are rock music and pop music. So many kinds of music. World music from different…

Image

Baseball needs to put the steroids era behind it by having and enforcing tough rules against all kinds of artificial advantages, so that spring…

Image

Daily contact with some teachers is itself all-sided ethical education for the child without a spoken precept. Here, too, the real advantage of male…

G. Stanley Hall

Image

Browse all 3,353 Advantage quotes