65 Quotations by Henry James
- 21. If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I wou ...
- 22. In art economy is always beauty.
- 23. In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.
- 24. It has been my fate, and one's fate one accepts. It's a dreadful thing to have to say, in so wicked ...
- 25. It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for ...
- 26. It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious peopl ...
- 27. It struck him really that he had never so lived with her as during this period of her silence; the s ...
- 28. It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
- 29. Live all you can - it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so lo ...
- 30. Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so lon ...
- 31. Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
- 32. No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplo ...
- 33. Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll ...
- 34. One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absen ...
- 35. People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course--with the clock of their freedom ticking as ...
- 36. People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point an ...
- 37. She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
- 38. She had fortunately always her appetite for news. The pure flame of the disinterested burned in her ...
- 39. She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.
- 40. Small and fat and constantly facetious, straw- coloured and destitute of marks, he would have been p ...
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