Henry James Quotes

A man who pretends to understand women is ad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

Henry James

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

Henry James

She ordered a cup of tea, which proved excessively bad, and this gave her a sense that she was suffering in a romantic cause.

Henry James

To treat a big subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening's traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large.

Henry James

I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.

Henry James

True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.

Henry James

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.

Henry James

Summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

Henry James
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