Category - Henry James

Discover the thoughtful and inspirational Quotes of Henry James, a philosopher and author. Our collection of his most impactful quotes reflects his deep understanding of language, philosophy, and history.
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Henry James

I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.

– Henry James

Henry James

In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.

– Henry James

Henry James

An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.

– Henry James

Henry James

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

– Henry James

Henry James

Young 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 James

Henry James

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

Henry James

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

Henry James

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

– Henry James

Henry James

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

– Henry James

Henry James

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

Henry James

What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?

– Henry James

Henry James

I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.

– Henry James

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