Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
HENRY JAMESEvery good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
HENRY JAMESThe superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
HENRY JAMESUnder certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
HENRY JAMESHowever British you may be, I am more British still.
HENRY JAMESTo believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
HENRY JAMESSorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
HENRY JAMESHe is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
HENRY JAMESThere were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
HENRY JAMESIn art economy is always beauty.
HENRY JAMESLife is a predicament which precedes death.
HENRY JAMESIt takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
HENRY JAMESHer imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
HENRY JAMESInnocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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 JAMESIdeas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
HENRY JAMESLove has nothing to do with good reasons.
HENRY JAMES