Top 25 Quotes by Henry James of 251 - Page 2

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.

Henry James

Judging, Unseen, Pieces

Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.12972, Delphi Classics

Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.

Henry James

Adjectives, Literature, Sugar

Henry James (2016). “Henry James: Autobiographies: A Small Boy and Others / Notes of a Son and Brother / The Middle Years / Other Writings: Library of America #274”, p.1142, Library of America

Love has nothing to do with good reasons.

Henry James

Reason

Henry James (2016). “Portrait of a Lady”, p.394, Henry James

She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.

Henry James

Thinking, Feels

Things are always different than what they might be...If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.

Henry James

Waiting, Different, Might

Live all you can; it's a mistake not to.

Henry James

Mistake, Inspirational Life, Ambassadors

The Ambassadors bk. 5, ch. 11 (1903)

Never say you know the last word about any human heart.

Henry James

Heart, Knowing, Novelists

Henry James, F. O. Matthiessen, Kenneth B. Murdock (1981). “The Notebooks of Henry James”, p.74, University of Chicago Press

A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.

Henry James

Alive, Tradition

Henry James, James Edwin Miller (1972). “Theory of fiction: Henry James”

I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.

Henry James

Friendship, Integrity, Self Esteem

Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.

Henry James

Character, Ideas, Two

Henry James (1930). “Charles W. Eliot: President of Harvard University, 1869-1909”

In art economy is always beauty.

Henry James

Beauty, Art, Editing

The Altar of the Dead preface (1909)

It's never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.

Henry James

Aberration, Fool, Born

Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.3508, Delphi Classics

There are women who are for all your 'times of life.' They're the most wonderful sort.

Henry James

Wonderful

Henry James (2015). “The Ambassadors”, p.160, Xist Publishing

I don't care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.

Henry James

Care, Reason, Preference

'The Portrait of a Lady' (1881) vol. 2, ch. 5.

The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.

Henry James

Men, World, May

"Philosophy of Henry James : a digest". Book by J. A. Kellog,

It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games

Henry James

Winning, Games, Play

The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life - that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.

Henry James

Art, Mind, Degrees

Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.

Henry James

Art, Philosophy, Inspirational Running

Henry James (1852). “Lectures and miscellanies”, p.124

Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.

Henry James

Infinite, Innocent, Pleasure

Henry James (2014). “Collected Stories 2”, p.155, Everyman's Library

if you are going to be pushed you had better jump

Henry James

Ifs

Henry James (2015). “Washington Square (Unabridged): Satirical Novel from the famous author of the realism movement, known for Portrait of a Lady, The Ambassadors, The Princess Casamassima, The Bostonians, The American…”, p.106, e-artnow

Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.

Henry James

Money, Literature, Charming

1881 Gilbert Osmond. The Portrait of a Lady, ch.35.

There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.

Henry James

Two, Taste, Recognition

Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.12847, Delphi Classics

To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.

Henry James

Inspirational, Life, Time

Henry James, F. O. Matthiessen, Kenneth B. Murdock (1981). “The Notebooks of Henry James”, p.99, University of Chicago Press