Henry James Quotes

Biography: Henry James is known for his contributions to literature as a novelist... more Biography: Henry James is known for his contributions to literature as a novelist and literary critic. Born in 1843, he was a key figure in 19th-century literary realism and the transition to 20th-century modernism. His notable works include "The Portrait of a Lady" and "The Turn of the Screw," often exploring complex themes of consciousness and morality. less

"The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of having imagination is to have a sense of life.""One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.""To take what there is and use it without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived.""The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary is that it be interesting.""There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.""The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.""Experience is never limited and it is never complete it is an immense sensibility a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue""The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have""Ideas are, in truth, forces infinite too for good or evil""The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in""Live all you can it's a mistake not to""Summer afternoon summer afternoon to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language""She's a great genius for looking over other people's shoulders and detecting the faults they would fain conceal""We work in the dark we do what we can we give what we have our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task the rest is the madness of art ""I intend to judge things for myself to judge wrongly I think is more honorable than not to judge at all ""Sorrow comes in great waves but rolls over us and though it may almost smother us it passes and we remain ""Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself ""It is better to be a person, than a personage""Try to be one of those on whom nothing is lost""Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind"

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