It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
HENRY JAMESDo not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
More Henry James Quotes
-
-
Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
HENRY JAMES -
Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
HENRY JAMES -
Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
HENRY JAMES -
And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
HENRY JAMES -
One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
HENRY JAMES -
Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
HENRY JAMES -
Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
HENRY JAMES -
Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
HENRY JAMES -
if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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 -
Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
HENRY JAMES -
I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
HENRY JAMES -
Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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 -
He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
HENRY JAMES