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.

Quote by Henry James

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I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth-I only regret, in...

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth-I only regret, in...

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

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

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine...

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine...

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no...

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no...

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only...

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only...

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

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

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no...

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no...

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the...

The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the...

We work in the dark, We do what we can, We give what we have,...

We work in the dark, We do what we can, We give what we have,...

Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words...

Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words...

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything...

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything...

True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self, but the point...

True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self, but the point...

Vereker's secret, my dear man - the general intention of his books: the string the...

Vereker's secret, my dear man - the general intention of his books: the string the...

I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort....

I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort....

However British you may be, I am more British still.

However British you may be, I am more British still.

In art economy is always beauty.

In art economy is always beauty.

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

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

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

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

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

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