I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
HENRY JAMESI think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
HENRY JAMESUnder certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
HENRY JAMESI mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
HENRY JAMESIf one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
HENRY JAMESLife is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
HENRY JAMESHowever British you may be, I am more British still.
HENRY JAMESAll intimacies are based on differences.
HENRY JAMESHe is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
HENRY JAMESI 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 JAMESif you are going to be pushed you had better jump
HENRY JAMESIt is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
HENRY JAMESAmericans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
HENRY JAMESHis beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
HENRY JAMES…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
HENRY JAMESA man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
HENRY JAMESTo believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
HENRY JAMES