65 Quotations by Henry James
- 1. "There are certainly moments," said Chad, "when you seem to me too good to be true. Yet if you are t ...
- 2. A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad m ...
- 3. Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
- 4. Deep experience is never peaceful.
- 5. Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for your ...
- 6. Even when a thing's already nice there mostly is some other thing that would have been nicer - or as ...
- 7. Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge ...
- 8. Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a ...
- 9. For the worst sign of all--as I must have it for you-- is that you can't help me. That's when a woma ...
- 10. He had dropped upon a seat halfway down the nave and, again in the museum mood, was trying with head ...
- 11. He had the entertainment of thinking that if he had for that moment stopped the clock it was to prom ...
- 12. He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light ...
- 13. His idea was simply what a man's idea always is--to put every effort off on the woman.
- 14. I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored whe ...
- 15. I feel how little she can like being told of her owing me anything. No woman ever enjoys such an obl ...
- 16. I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pron ...
- 17. I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
- 18. I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.
- 19. I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.
- 20. Ideas are, in truth, force.
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