However British you may be, I am more British still.
HENRY JAMESHowever British you may be, I am more British still.
HENRY JAMESIt’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
HENRY JAMESYou are good for nothing unless you are clever.
HENRY JAMESThe visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
HENRY JAMESThe right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
HENRY JAMESIn art economy is always beauty.
HENRY JAMESI call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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 I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
HENRY JAMESNever say you know the last word about any human heart.
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 JAMESMake the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
HENRY JAMESDon’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
HENRY JAMESI don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
HENRY JAMESA tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
HENRY JAMESAmericans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
HENRY JAMES