Quotes of Henry James - somelinesforyou

“ It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self- conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under-value them. ”

- Henry James

“ Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there. ”

- Henry James

“ She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities. ”

- Henry James

“ She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities. ”

- Henry James

“ Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language. ”

- Henry James

“ Summer afternoon-summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. ”

- Henry James

“ Summer afternoon — summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. ”

- Henry James

“ Summer afternoon – summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. ”

- Henry James

“ Her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it. ”

- Henry James

“ The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have. ”

- Henry James

“ It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. ”

- Henry James

“ Summer afternoon – summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. ”

- Henry James

“ It has made me better loving you…it has made me wiser, and easier, and brighter. ”

- Henry James

“ 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

“ Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. ”

- Henry James

“ It has made me better loving you... it has made me wiser, and easier, and brighter. I used to want a great many things before, and to be angry that I did not have them. Theoretically, I was satisfied. I flattered myself that I had limited my wants. But I was subject to irritation; I used to have morbid sterile hateful fits of hunger, of desire. Now I really am satisfied, because I can’t think of anything better. It’s just as when one has been trying to spell out a book in the twilight, and suddenly the lamp comes in. I had been putting out my eyes over the book of life, and finding nothing to reward me for my pains; but now that I can read it properly I see that it’s a delightful story. ”

- Henry James

“ I'm yours for everfor ever and ever. Here I stand; I'm as firm as a rock. If you'll only trust me, how little you'll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours. ”

- Henry James

“ Live all you can: it's a mistake not to. It doesn't matter what you do in particular, so long as you have had your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had? ”

- Henry James

“ Live all you can: it's a mistake not to. It doesn't matter what you do in particular, so long as you have had your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had? ”

- Henry James

“ True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand. ”

- Henry James

“ It's time to start living the life you've imagined. ”

- Henry James

“ She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth. ”

- Henry James

“ Obstacles are those frightening things you see when you take you eyes off your goal. ”

- Henry James

“ Life is a predicament which precedes death. ”

- Henry James

“ True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand. ”

- Henry James

“ Make (the reader) think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications. My values are positively all blanks, save so far as an excited horror, a promoted pity, a created expertness... proceed to read into them more or less fantastic figures. ”

- Henry James

“ The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have. ”

- Henry James

“ Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic. ”

- Henry James

“ She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth. ”

- Henry James

“ Every man who has reached even his intellectual teens begins to suspect that life is no farce; that it is not genteel comedy even; that it flowers and fructifies on the contrary out of the profoundest tragic depths of the essential dearth in which its subject's roots are plunged. The natural inheritance of everyone who is capable of spiritual life is an unsubdued forest where the wolf howls and the obscene bird of night chatters. ”

- Henry James Sr.
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