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The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting (Henry James Quotes)
The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman (Henry James Quotes)
There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition (Henry James Quotes)
To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own (Henry James Quotes)
Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea (Henry James Quotes)
What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character? (Henry James Quotes)
She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table (Henry James Quotes)
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process (Henry James Quotes)
We are divided of course between liking to feel the past strange and liking to feel it familiar (Henry James Quotes)
Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history (Henry James Quotes)
Of course you’re always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you’ll condemn them all! (Henry James Quotes)
To treat a big subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening’s traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large (Henry James Quotes)
He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window (Henry James Quotes)
I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all (Henry James Quotes)
Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic (Henry James Quotes)
Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she should find herself in a difficult position, so that she might have the pleasure of being as heroic as the occasion demanded (Henry James Quotes)
Her chief dread in life, at this period of her development, was that she would appear narrow minded; what she feared next afterwards was that she should be so (Henry James Quotes)
... he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days (Henry James Quotes)
... and the great advantage of being a literary woman, was that you could go everywhere and do everything (Henry James Quotes)
Things are always different than what they might be... If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything (Henry James Quotes)
To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live (Henry James Quotes)
Sorrow comes in great waves... but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us. And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain (Henry James Quotes)
I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination (Henry James Quotes)
She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth (Henry James Quotes)
One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant (Henry James Quotes)
There were always people to snatch at you, and it would never occur to them that they were eating you up. They did that without tasting (Henry James Quotes)
He valued life and literature equally for the light they threw upon each other; to his mind one implied the other; he was unable to conceive of them apart (Henry James Quotes)
And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved (Henry James Quotes)
I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet (Henry James Quotes)
.. her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it (Henry James Quotes)