Henry James Quotes - Page 5

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• Art without life is a poor affair.

  Henry James

  Art, Life Is, Affair

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

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• No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles, nor manors, nor old country-houses, nor parsonages, nor thatched cottages nor ivied ruins no cathedrals, nor abbeys, nor little Norman churches no great Universities nor public schools -- no Oxford, nor Eton, nor Harrow no literature, no novels, no museums, no pictures, no political society, no sporting class -- no Epsom nor Ascot Some such list as that might be drawn up of the absent things in American life.

  Henry James

  Loyalty, Country, School

  'Hawthorne' (1879)

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• We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art...what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered. I think I don't regret a single "excess" of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

  Henry James

  Beautiful, Art, Regret

  Letter to Hugh Walpole, August 21, 1913.

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• She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.

  Henry James

  Curiosity, Wonder, Staring

  Henry James (2015). “The Portrait of a Lady (Unabridged): From the famous author of the realism movement, known for The Turn of The Screw, The Wings of the Dove, The American, The Bostonian, The Ambassadors, What Maisie Knew…”, p.38, e-artnow

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• Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.

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  Men, Ninety Nine, Class

  Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.1147, Delphi Classics

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• If I should certainly say to a novice, 'Write from experience and experience only,' I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, 'Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.'

  Henry James

  Writing, People, Trying

  "The Art of Fiction" (1884)

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• Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

  Henry James

  Beautiful, Summer, Time

  Quoted in Edith Wharton, A Backward Glance (1934)

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• I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.

  Henry James

  Home, Patriotic, Thinking

  Henry James (2016). “The Portrait of a Lady, Complete: American Literature”, p.86, 谷月社

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• You think too much.' 'I suppose I do; but I can’t help it, my mind is so terribly active. When I give myself, I give myself. I pay the penalty in my headaches, my famous headaches--a perfect circlet of pain! But I carry it as a queen carries her crown.

  Henry James

  Queens, Pain, Thinking

  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.85, e-artnow

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• All roads lead to Rome, and there were times when it might have struck us that almost every branch of study or subject of conversation skirted forbidden ground.

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  Rome, Branches, Might

  Henry James (2016). “The Turn of the Screw”, p.71, First Avenue Editions

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

  Henry James

  May, British, Stills

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• Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.

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  I Hate You, Doors, Imagination

  Henry James (2015). “The Portrait of a Lady (Unabridged): From the famous author of the realism movement, known for The Turn of The Screw, The Wings of the Dove, The American, The Bostonian, The Ambassadors, What Maisie Knew…”, p.36, e-artnow

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• I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I'm very glad therefore you've been a part of it.

  Henry James

  Beautiful, Mean, Together

  Henry James (2015). “The Wings of the Dove (Unabridged Edition – Volume 1&2): Classic Romance 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.110, e-artnow

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• It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

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  History, Tourism, Literature

  Henry James (1993). “Collected Travel Writings: Great Britain and America”, p.495, Library of America

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• You wanted to look at life for yourself - but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.

  Henry James

  Wish, Looks, Mills

  Henry James (2015). “The Complete Novels of Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady + The Wings of the Dove + What Maisie Knew + The American + The Bostonian + The Ambassadors + Washington Square and more (Unabridged): Confidence + Roderick Hudson + The Awkward Age + The Europeans + The Golden Bowl + The Other House + The Outcry + The Princess Casamassima + The Reverberator + The Sacred Fount….”, p.2844, e-artnow

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• I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.

  Henry James

  Hate, Names, Usa

  Henry James (1974). “Letters”, p.31, Harvard University Press

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

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  Love, Writing, Literature

  Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.11956, Delphi Classics

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• To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.

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  Literature, Injury, Humans

  'My Friend Bingham' (short story, 1867)

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• I could come back to America..to die..but never, never to live.

  Henry James

  America, Dies

  Letter to Alice James

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• All the same don't forget that you're young — blessedly young; be glad of it on the contrary and live up to it. Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life.

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  Gratitude, Mistake, Matter

  "Complete Works of Henry James".

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• Art does not lie in copying nature.- Nature furnishes the material by means of which is to express a beauty still unexpressed in nature.-The artist beholds in nature more than she herself is conscious of.

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  Art, Lying, Mean

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• I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

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  Birthday, Regret, Thinking

  Letter to Hugh Walpole, 21 Aug. 1913

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• She had a certain way of looking at life which he took as a personal offense.

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  Way, Certain, Offense

  Henry James (1994). “Henry James: selected works”, Random House Value Publishing

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• 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

  Destiny, Men, Proof

  Henry James (1974). “Henry James, Senior: a selection of his writings”

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• Keep making the movements of life.

  Henry James

  Movement

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