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Henry James Quotes

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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did  (Henry James Quotes) She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering  (Henry James Quotes) It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools  (Henry James Quotes) I have in my own fashion learned the lesson that life is effort, unremittingly repeated  (Henry James Quotes) He was there or was not there: not there if I didn’t see him  (Henry James Quotes) Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window  (Henry James Quotes) We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are  (Henry James Quotes) His kiss was like white lightning, a flash that spread, and spread again, and stayed  (Henry James Quotes) She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!  (Henry James Quotes) One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s God is in himself a defense  (Henry James Quotes) In the long run an opinion often borrows credit from the forbearance of its patrons  (Henry James Quotes) There are few things more exciting to me, in short, than a psychological reason  (Henry James Quotes) We were alone with the quiet day, and his little heart, dispossessed, had stopped  (Henry James Quotes) Olive will come down in about ten minutes; she told me to tell you that  (Henry James Quotes) I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace  (Henry James Quotes) Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind  (Henry James Quotes) Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every airborne particle in its tissue  (Henry James Quotes) A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals  (Henry James Quotes) The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy. What was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?  (Henry James Quotes) We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art  (Henry James Quotes) The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself  (Henry James Quotes) I have only to let myself go! So I have said all my life, yet I have never fully done it  (Henry James Quotes) Art derives a considerable part of its beneficial exercise from flying in the face of presumptions  (Henry James Quotes) If we pretend to respect the artist at all we must allow him his freedom of choice, in the face, in particular cases, of innumerable presumptions that the choice will not fructify  (Henry James Quotes) It might seem that an egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can reasonably be expected of it  (Henry James Quotes) There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this starving and sinning world. One turns half away, musingly, from certain beautiful useless things  (Henry James Quotes) It exhibits the effort of an essentially prosaic mind to lift itself, by a prolonged muscular strain, into poetry  (Henry James Quotes) The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern... this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience  (Henry James Quotes) Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself  (Henry James Quotes) People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you’re nice to the second housemaid  (Henry James Quotes)
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