There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

Quote by Henry James

Topics: Henry James Quotes

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

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

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.

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a...

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a...

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second...

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second...

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...

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.

Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what...

Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what...

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature

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...

Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other...

Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other...

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

Deep experience is never peaceful.

Deep experience is never peaceful.

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...

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

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

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.

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,...

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

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

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

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

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.

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.