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Henry James Quote: “His secretary of many years’ standing, Theodora Bosanquet, was struck by this persistent aspect of the Jamesian sensibility: ‘When he walked out of the refuge of his study and into the world and looked about him, he saw a place of torment, where creatures of prey perpetually thrust their claws into the quivering flesh of the doomed, defenceless children of light.”
Henry James Quote: “There came suddenly an hour after which, as I look back, the business seems to me to have been all pure suffering.”
Henry James Quote: “He had sprung from a rigid Puritan stock, and had been brought up to think much more intently of the duties of this life than of its privileges and pleasures.”
Henry James Quote: “She had an unequalled gift, usually pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into opportunities.”
Henry James Quote: “She hadn’t given up yet, and the broken sentence, if she was the last word, would end with a sort of meaning.”
Henry James Quote: “Fanny Assingham had at this moment the sense as of a large heaped dish presented to her intelligence and inviting it to a feast – so thick were the notes of intention in this remarkable speech.”
Henry James Quote: “My idea is this, that when you only love a little you’re naturally not jealous-or are only jealous also a little, so that it doesn’t matter. But when you love in a deeper and intenser way, then you’re in the very same proportion jealous; your jealousy has intensity and, no doubt, ferocity. When however you love in the most abysmal and unutterable way of all – whey then you’re beyond everything, and nothing can pull you down.”
Henry James Quote: “THEY have the manners to be silent, and you, trusted as you are, the baseness to speak!”
Henry James Quote: “The vanity of women had long memories, but she was making no claim on him of a compliment or a mistake.”
Henry James Quote: “One never said the things one wanted – one remembered them all an hour afterwards. On the other hand one usually said a lot of things one shouldn’t, simply from a sense that one had to say something.”
Henry James Quote: “When the possibilities themselves had accordingly turned stale, when the secret of the gods had grown faint, had perhaps even quite evaporated, that, and that only, was failure. It wouldn’t have been failure to be bankrupt, dishonoured, pilloried, hanged; it was failure not to be anything.”
Henry James Quote: “He himself was almost never bored, and there was no man with whom it would have been a greater mistake to suppose that silence meant displeasure.”
Henry James Quote: “I welcomed the consciousness that I was charged with much to do, and I caused it to be known as well that, left thus to myself, I was quite remarkably firm.”
Henry James Quote: “However British you may be, I am more British still.”
Henry James Quote: “His full parenthesis was closed, and he was once more but a sentence, of a sort, in the general text, the text that, from his momentary street-corner, showed as a great grey page of print that somehow managed to be crowded without being ‘fine’.”
Henry James Quote: “She had always observed that she got on better with clever women than silly ones like herself; the silly ones could never understand her wisdom; whereas the clever ones – the really clever ones – always understood her silliness.”
Henry James Quote: “The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.”
Henry James Quote: “Things are always different from what they might be.”
Henry James Quote: “Every governmental institution has been a standing testimony to the harmonic destiny of society, a standing proof that the life of man is destined for peace and amity, instead of disorder and contention.”
Henry James Quote: “He would rather seem stupid any day than fatuous.”
Henry James Quote: “It must be added however that, thanks to his constant habit of shaking the bottle in which life handed him the wine of experience, he presently found the taste of the lees rising as usual into his draught.”
Henry James Quote: “One is oneself a fine consequence.”
Henry James Quote: “The young girl inspected her flounces and smoothed her ribbons again; and Winterbourne presently risked an observation upon the beauty of the view. He was ceasing to be embarrassed, for he had begun to perceive that she was not in the least embarrassed herself.”
Henry James Quote: “If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.”
Henry James Quote: “It might seem that an egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can reasonably be expected of it.”
Henry James Quote: “They had built strong and piled high – based as it was on such appearances – their conviction that, thanks to her native complacencies of so many sorts, she would always, quite to the end and through and through, take them as nobly sparing her. Amerigo.”
Henry James Quote: “In the long run an opinion often borrows credit from the forbearance of its patrons.”
Henry James Quote: “People are free to find out the best and the worst of me!”
Henry James Quote: “Art is long. If we work for ourselves of course we must hurry. If we work for her we must often pause.”
Henry James Quote: “Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to check the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way.”
Henry James Quote: “But if we may perish by cracks in things that we don’t know.”
Henry James Quote: “The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks.”
Henry James Quote: “I’ll piously gather up the crumbs of your feasts and make a meal of them,” said Nora. “I’ll let you know how they taste.”
Henry James Quote: “He had seen the follies of the romantic disposition, but there seemed somehow no follies in theirs – nothing, one was obliged to recognise, but innocent pleasures, pleasures without penalties.”
Henry James Quote: “Wasn’t history full of the destruction of precious things?”
Henry James Quote: “I don’t know why – there are no brick gables,′ said Mrs. Prest, ’but this corner has seemed to me before more Dutch than Italian, more like Amsterdam than Venice. It’s perversely clean, for reasons of its own; and though you can pass on foot scarcely anyone ever thinks of doing so. It has the air of a Protestant Sunday. Perhaps the people are afraid of the Misses Bordereau. I daresay they have the reputation of witches.”
Henry James Quote: “The women one meets – what are they but books one has already read? You’re a library of the unknown, the uncut. Upon my word I’ve a subscription.”
Henry James Quote: “Whether or no being hopelessly vulgar is being ‘bad’ is a question for the metaphysicians.”
Henry James Quote: “I find that I really hang back; but I must take my horrid plunge.”
Henry James Quote: “Between nine and ten, at last, in the high clear picture – he was moving in these days, as in a gallery, from clever canvas to clever canvas – he drew a long breath: it was so presented to him from the first that the spell of his luxury wouldn’t be broken.”
Henry James Quote: “I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.”
Henry James Quote: “But James, as an artist, was deeply suspicious of what gave him pleasure, or indeed satisfaction. In his own complex sensibility, there was an ambiguity about most things, and this moved him towards subtlety when he approached character, drama, and scene, and nudged him towards many modifying subclauses when he wrote a sentence. Nothing came to him simply.”
Henry James Quote: “All these people – the people of the English mother’s side – had been of condition more or less eminent; yet with oddities and disparities that had often since made Maria, thinking them over, wonder what they really quite rhymed to.”
Henry James Quote: “I suspect that the age of letters is waning, for our time. It is the age of Panama Canals, of Sandra Bernhardt, of Western wheat raising, of merely material expansion. Art, form, may return, but I doubt I shall live to see them – I don’t believe they are as eternal as the poets say.”
Henry James Quote: “He was holding his breath so as not to inhale the odor of democracy.”
Henry James Quote: “Oh, it was a trap – not designed but deep – to my imagination, to my delicacy, perhaps to my vanity; to whatever in me was most excitable.”
Henry James Quote: “When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.”
Henry James Quote: “Every one asks me what I ‘think’ of everything,” said Spencer Brydon; “and I make answer as I can – begging or dodging the question, putting them off with any nonsense. It wouldn’t matter to any of them really,” he went on, “for, even were it possible to meet in that stand-and-deliver way so silly a demand on so big a subject, my ‘thoughts’ would still be almost altogether about something that concerns only myself.”
Henry James Quote: “Poor Catherine’s dignity was not aggressive; it never sat in state; but if you pushed far enough you could find it. Her father had pushed very far.”
Henry James Quote: “I keep a band of music in my ante-room,” he said once to her. “It has orders to play without stopping; it renders me two excellent services. It keeps the sounds of the world from reaching the private apartments, and it makes the world think that dancing’s going on within.”
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