Quotes about Henry James

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

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

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

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I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.

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

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

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Deep experience is never peaceful.

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

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will...

#Henry James

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

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

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

#Henry James