It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
HENRY JAMESIt’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
HENRY JAMESLove has nothing to do with good reasons.
HENRY JAMESHowever British you may be, I am more British still.
HENRY JAMESDon’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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 JAMESI think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
HENRY JAMESIf I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
HENRY JAMESTry to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
HENRY JAMESI 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 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 JAMESLive all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
HENRY JAMESI don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
HENRY JAMESThough there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
HENRY JAMESif you are going to be pushed you had better jump
HENRY JAMESI hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
HENRY JAMES