Henry James Quotes

Henry James

Henry James

American Writer

Born: Apr 15, 1843

Died: Feb 28, 1916

Any Art Life Never People You

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I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them. Henry James

People Never Liked Always Been Interested Them

The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have. Henry James

Time Right Time Still Any Lucky Right Chance

Deep experience is never peaceful. Henry James

Experience Never Deep Peaceful

Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had? Henry James

Life You Mistake Matter Long Live Had Particular Much Your

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

Life Only Attempt Does Existence Represent Reason Novel

The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman. Henry James

Great Man Woman About Superiority Never Over Another Opinion

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

Work Art Dark Madness Passion Rest Doubt Our Give Task

In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives. Henry James

Conservatives Alternate Radicals Palaces Museums

There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition. Henry James

Emotions Recognition Kinds Surprise Taste Two

Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet. Henry James

Money Meet Follow Horrid Charming Thing

It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe. Henry James

Fate Fighting Complex Entails Responsibilities Superstitious American Being Against Europe

The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master. Henry James

Nature Will Face Country Master Field Imagination Elsewhere Our Secrets Worthily More Only Civilization Point Write Well Very Yield Than American Literary Really Certain Certain Point Grasping Even Sufficient Things Need

People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid. Henry James

Alone Me You People Nice Must About Seems Point Talk Leave Up Just Certain Your Certain Point Conscience Second Bring

The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be? Henry James

Success Art Worth Whatever Only Powder Talent Line Being Happened

To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him. Henry James

You Human Being Him Least Human Being After Injury

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