I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
HENRY JAMESI hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
HENRY JAMESMoney’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
HENRY JAMESInnocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
HENRY JAMESDon’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
HENRY JAMESIt’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
HENRY JAMESLive as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
HENRY JAMESShe had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
HENRY JAMESIt’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
HENRY JAMESIt takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
HENRY JAMESSorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
HENRY JAMESThere’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
HENRY JAMESI’m yours for ever–for 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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
HENRY JAMESIn art economy is always beauty.
HENRY JAMESThe visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
HENRY JAMESI am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
HENRY JAMES