The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
HENRY JAMESThe right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
HENRY JAMESAdjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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 JAMESIt’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
HENRY JAMESBe generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
HENRY JAMESIf you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
HENRY JAMESDon’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
HENRY JAMESYoung 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 JAMESThere’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
HENRY JAMESI have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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 JAMESCats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
HENRY JAMESIt is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
HENRY JAMESIf one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
HENRY JAMESShe had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
HENRY JAMESThough there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
HENRY JAMES