We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
HENRY JAMESWe must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
HENRY JAMESAnd remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
HENRY JAMESThe main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
HENRY JAMESNever say you know the last word about any human heart.
HENRY JAMESThe right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
HENRY JAMESImbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
HENRY JAMESAdjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
HENRY JAMESIn other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
HENRY JAMESIf one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
HENRY JAMESHe is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
HENRY JAMESAnd we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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 think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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 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 JAMESDo not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
HENRY JAMES