I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
HENRY JAMESI don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
HENRY JAMESIf one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
HENRY JAMESInnocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
HENRY JAMESYou are good for nothing unless you are clever.
HENRY JAMESDon’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
HENRY JAMESI call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
HENRY JAMESLive as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
HENRY JAMESOne can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
HENRY JAMESI hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
HENRY JAMESIdeas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
HENRY JAMESShe had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
HENRY JAMESTry to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
HENRY JAMESGod’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 JAMESAn Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
HENRY JAMESTo believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
HENRY JAMESYou must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
HENRY JAMES