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Henry James Quotes

Total quotes: 17
“I’ve always been interested in people, but I’ve never liked them.”
— Henry James, The Ambassadors
Tagged: Pessimist
“Do not mind anything anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything yourself.”
— Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
Tagged: Self-Worth, Don't Listen To Negativity, Encouraging, Calm Catalog
“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
— Henry James, Quotes About Summer
Tagged: Henry James, Love, Summer
“It has made me better, loving you.”
— Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
Tagged: Love, Loving Someone
“To take what there is, 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, The Notebooks of Henry James
Tagged: Take, Use, Making the most out of life, Life, way of life, Living
“I'm yours for ever--for ever and ever. Here I stand; I'm as firm as a rock. If you'll only trust me, how little you'll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.”
— Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
Tagged: Love, romance, Affectionate, Patience, Trust
“It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.”
— Henry James, Letter to H.G. Wells
Tagged: Art, Art Makes Life, interests, beauty, force, process
“The real offence, as she ultimately perceived, was her having a mind of her own at all. Her mind was to be his — attached to his own like a small garden-plot to a deer-park.”
— Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
Tagged: Individuality, Independence, Own Mind, Dominance
“She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth.”
— Henry James, What Maisie Knew
Tagged: Refuge, fiction, fact, Truth, Knowledge
“She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.”
— Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
Tagged: Curiosity, Wonder, Life
“Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.”
— Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
Tagged: Imagination, Active, Creativity
“True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out — you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.”
— Henry James, Roderick Hudson
Tagged: Happiness, Genuine, Going Out, Self love
“Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.”
— Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
Tagged: Reputation, Reading, Books, Knowledge
“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.”
— Henry James, The Middle Years
Tagged: Work, Darkness, Generosity, Doubt, Passion, Art, Giving, task
“It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.”
— Henry James, Hawthorne
Tagged: History, Literature, Produce, Writing, Reading
“[She] is written in a foreign tongue.”
— Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
Tagged: not understanding someone, human differences, Relationships, understanding someone
“Love has nothing to do with good reasons.”
— Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
Tagged: Love, Reasons, romance
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