If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
HENRY JAMESI hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
More Henry James Quotes
-
-
Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
HENRY JAMES -
One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
HENRY JAMES -
I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
HENRY JAMES -
If this was love, love had been overrated.
HENRY JAMES -
You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
HENRY JAMES -
A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
HENRY JAMES -
Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
HENRY JAMES -
And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
HENRY JAMES -
Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
HENRY JAMES -
I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
HENRY JAMES -
She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
HENRY JAMES -
The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
HENRY JAMES -
Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
HENRY JAMES -
Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
HENRY JAMES -
It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
HENRY JAMES






