Henry James

Henry James, OM , brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James, was an American-born author and literary critic of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Found 21 thoughts of Henry James

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

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

"There are certainly moments," said Chad, "when you seem to me too good to be true. Yet if you are true," he added, "that seems to be all that need concern me."

Henry James

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

Henry James

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

Henry James

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.

Henry James

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

Henry James

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

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

The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

Henry James

Thanks to his constant habit of shaking the bottle in which life handed him the wine of experience, he presently found the taste of the lees rising as usual into his draught.

Henry James

Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.

Henry James

There are three things that are important in human life. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind.

Henry James

Small and fat and constantly facetious, straw- coloured and destitute of marks, he would have been practically indistinguishable hadn't his constant preference for light-grey clothes, for white hats, for very big cigars and very little stories, done what it could for his identity.

Henry James

He had the entertainment of thinking that if he had for that moment stopped the clock it was to promote the next minute this still livelier motion.

Henry James

To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.

Henry James

Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.

Henry James

His idea was simply what a man's idea always is--to put every effort off on the woman.

Henry James

Henry James

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?

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.

"There are certainly moments," said Chad, "when you seem to me too good to be true. Yet if you are true," he added, "that seems to be all that need concern me."

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

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

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.

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

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?

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.

The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

Thanks to his constant habit of shaking the bottle in which life handed him the wine of experience, he presently found the taste of the lees rising as usual into his draught.

Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.

There are three things that are important in human life. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind.

Small and fat and constantly facetious, straw- coloured and destitute of marks, he would have been practically indistinguishable hadn't his constant preference for light-grey clothes, for white hats, for very big cigars and very little stories, done what it could for his identity.

He had the entertainment of thinking that if he had for that moment stopped the clock it was to promote the next minute this still livelier motion.

To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.

Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.

His idea was simply what a man's idea always is--to put every effort off on the woman.

Ideas are, in truth, force.

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.