Quotes Henry James

A man who pretends to understand women is ad manners. For hi...

An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his to...

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, an...

Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there....

Deep experience is never peaceful....

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else...

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is...

However British you may be, I am more British still....

I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really m...

I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of comp...

I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of comp...

I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in l...

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive yo...

I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked ...

Ideas are, in truth, force....

If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American...

In art economy is always beauty....

In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conserv...

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance....

It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as ...

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literat...

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little ...

It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the respo...

Life is a predicament which precedes death....

Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much ...