Alice James
Alice James
Alice Jameswas an American diarist. The only daughter of Henry James, Sr. and sister of psychologist and philosopher William James and novelist Henry James, she is known mainly for the posthumously published diary that she kept in her final years...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth7 August 1848
CountryUnited States of America
Alice James quotes about
loyalty children husband
When will women begin to have the first glimmer that above all other loyalties is the loyalty toTruth, i.e., to yourself, that husband, children, friends and countryare as nothing to that.
complacency gains conscious
The gain isn't counted to the recluse and inactive that, having nothing to measure themselves by and never being tested by failure, they simmer and soak perpetually in conscious complacency.
humor mind want
How fatally the entire want of humor cripples the mind.
proportion given form
What one reads, or rather all that comes to us, is surely only of interest and value in proportion as we find ourselves therein, -- form given to what was vague, what slumbered stirred to life.
attitude struggle luxury
Destitution and excessive luxury develop apparently the same ideals, the same marauding attitude towards mankind, the intensity of struggle for material goods, -- surely showing how perfect is the meeting of extremes.
unexpected expected
Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected.
loss vulgarity-is trials
It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.