Quote: She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table. [Henry James]
Quote: Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind. [Henry James]
Quote: She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities. [Henry James]
Quote: It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance. [Henry James]
Quote: There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. [Henry James]
Quote: It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under-value them. [Henry James]
Quote: If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land. [Henry James]
Quote: Life is a predicament which precedes death. [Henry James]
Quote: To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text. [Henry James]
Quote: Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. [Henry James]
Quote: We work in the dark, We do what we can, We give what we have, Our doubt is our passion, And our passion is our task, The rest is the madness of art. [Henry James]
Quote: One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left. [Henry James]
Quote: In art economy is always beauty. [Henry James]
Quote: What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character? [Henry James]
Quote: The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting. [Henry James]
Quote: The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life. [Henry James]
Quote: I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home. [Henry James]
Quote: I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway and we are deprived of them. [Henry James]
Quote: The fatal futility of Fact. [Henry James]
Quote: The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending. [Henry James]
Quote: The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life in general so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it --this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience. [Henry James]
Quote: Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue. [Henry James]
Quote: Deep experience is never peaceful. [Henry James]
Quote: Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself. [Henry James]
Quote: Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors. [Henry James]