Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left. "
Henry James
Wonder
Know
Become
Related Quotes:
" I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect. "
Henry James
Only
Adore
Much
" Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women. "
Henry James
People
Young
Class
" The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have. "
Henry James
Time
Right Time
Right
" It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process. "
Henry James
Beauty
Know
Life
" I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them. "
Henry James
Always
Been
Never
" People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid. "
Henry James
Conscience
Me
Nice
" 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
Kind
Important
Be Kind
" We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art. "
Henry James
Passion
Art
Dark
" It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. "
Henry James
Great
Deal
Little
" I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme. "
Henry James
Love
Who
Hold
" Ideas are, in truth, force. "
Henry James
Force
Ideas
Truth
" I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it. "
Henry James
American
Doing
Simplicity
" However British you may be, I am more British still. "
Henry James
You
Am
British
" It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe. "
Henry James
Fate
Being
Fighting
" Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet. "
Henry James
Follow
Charming
Meet
" If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land. "
Henry James
Myself
America
Patriotism
" What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character? "
Henry James
Illustration
Determination
Character
" 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
Hold
Accusation
Without
" Life is a predicament which precedes death. "
Henry James
Life Is A
Precedes
Which
" Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue. "
Henry James
Kind
Never
Consciousness
" The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life. "
Henry James
Reason
Existence
Represent
" Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself. "
Henry James
Mind
You
Everyone
" There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. "
Henry James
Known
Afternoon
Tea
" Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had? "
Henry James
Matter
Long
Live
" 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
Appreciate
Take
Own
" Deep experience is never peaceful. "
Henry James
Peaceful
Deep
Experience
" It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition. "
Henry James
Make
Tradition
Even
" The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be? "
Henry James
Only
Worth
Talent
" To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him. "
Henry James
Human
Him
You
" I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace. "
Henry James
Age
Think
Youth