KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Henry James Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Henry James

Showing 21-30 of 43 Quotes by Henry James

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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Henry James

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Life is a predicament which precedes death.

~Henry James

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

~Henry James

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.

~Henry James

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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 of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.

~Henry James

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Henry James

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: April 15th, 1843

Died: February 28th, 1916

Links

Find Henry James on Amazon

Related Authors

Ray Bradbury
Dale Carnegie
Robert A. Heinlein
Napoleon Hill
Elbert Hubbard
H. L. Mencken
Dr. Seuss
William Arthur Ward

Popular Authors

Ambrose Bierce Brene Brown Buddha Carol Burnett Salvador Dali Eartha Kitt Charles Krauthammer Jim Valvano

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1882 - Franklin D. Roosevelt

1775 - Walter Savage Landor

1781 - Adelbert Von Chamisso

1846 - F. H. Bradley

1866 - Gelett Burgess

1909 - Saul Alinsky

1912 - Francis Schaeffer

1912 - Barbara Tuchman

1912 - Barbara W. Tuchman

1919 - Fred Korematsu

Birthdays on January 30th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Amazing Christmas Computers Dating Death Diet Jealousy Thanksgiving