Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
HENRY JAMESAdjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
HENRY JAMESIf one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
HENRY JAMESYou must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
HENRY JAMESCriticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
HENRY JAMESShe feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
HENRY JAMESHis beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
HENRY JAMESYou are good for nothing unless you are clever.
HENRY JAMESHowever British you may be, I am more British still.
HENRY JAMESThe visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
HENRY JAMESAnd we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
HENRY JAMESIt takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
HENRY JAMESDon’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
HENRY JAMESInnocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
HENRY JAMESDo not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
HENRY JAMESThings are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
HENRY JAMESif you are going to be pushed you had better jump
HENRY JAMES