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Henry James
Age: 73 †
Born: 1843
Born: January 1
Died: 1916
Died: January 1
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More quotes by Henry James
...and the great advantage of being a literary woman, was that you could go everywhere and do everything.
Henry James
She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
Henry James
Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
Henry James
Everything about Florence seems to be colored with a mild violet, like diluted wine.
Henry James
The faculty of attention has utterly vanished from the Anglo-Saxon mind, extinguished at its source by the big bayad?re of journalism, of the newspaper and the picture magazine which keeps screaming, Look at me. Illustrations, loud simplifications... bill poster advertising ? only these stand a chance.
Henry James
Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
Henry James
It was the way the autumn day looked into the high windows as it waned the way the red light, breaking at the close from under a low sombre sky, reached out in a long shaft and played over old wainscots, old tapestry, old gold, old colour.
Henry James
It's never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
Henry James
An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.
Henry James
Art does not lie in copying nature.- Nature furnishes the material by means of which is to express a beauty still unexpressed in nature.-The artist beholds in nature more than she herself is conscious of.
Henry James
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
Henry James
To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it...to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
Henry James
All roads lead to Rome, and there were times when it might have struck us that almost every branch of study or subject of conversation skirted forbidden ground.
Henry James
A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
Henry James
London is on the whole the most possible form of life.
Henry James
God's creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
Henry James
One can't judge till one's forty before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
Henry James
To say that she had a book is to say that her solitude did not press upon her for her love of knowledge had a fertilizing quality and her imagination was strong. There was at this time, however, a want of lightness in her situation, which the arrival of an unexpected visitor did much to dispel.
Henry James
I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
Henry James
I intend to judge things for myself to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.
Henry James
