65 Quotations by Henry James
- 41. Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
- 42. Summer afternoon -- summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in t ...
- 43. Thank goodness you're a failure-- it's why I so distinguish you! Anything else to-day is too hideous ...
- 44. Thanks to his constant habit of shaking the bottle in which life handed him the wine of experience, ...
- 45. The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient lite ...
- 46. The fatal futility of Fact.
- 47. The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of bei ...
- 48. The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.
- 49. The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent ...
- 50. The place, with its gray sky and withered garlands, its bared spaces and scattered dead leaves, was ...
- 51. The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole ...
- 52. The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a ...
- 53. The terrible fluidity of self-revelation.
- 54. The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.
- 55. There are three things that are important in human life. The first is to be kind. The second is to b ...
- 56. There are women who are for all your 'times of life.' They're the most wonderful sort.
- 57. Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors ...
- 58. Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the ...
- 59. To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine ...
- 60. To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.
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