Henry James
Henry James
Henry James, OM15 April 1843 – 28 February 1916) was an American-born writer. He is regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism. He was the son of Henry James, Sr. and the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth15 April 1843
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
character rose trying
Don't try so much to form your character - it's like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose. Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
character reality color
The effort really to see and really to represent is no idle business in face of the constant force that makes for muddlement. The great thing is indeed that the muddled state too is one of the very sharpest of the realities, that it also has color and form and character, has often in fact a broad and rich comicality.
literature injury humans
To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.
savannah taste cups
I recall my fleeting instants in Savannah as the taste of a cup charged to the brim.
england boxes conversation
Most English talk is a quadrille in a sentry-box.
reality dear-life dear
We must for dear life make our own counter-realities.
fine oneself consequence
One is oneself a fine consequence.
eggs might done
It might seem that an egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can reasonably be expected of it.
wonderful
There are women who are for all your 'times of life.' They're the most wonderful sort.
darkness lighthouse revolving
She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
men light blue
You seemed to me to be soaring far up in the blue - to be sailing in the bright light, over the heads of men. Suddenly some one tosses up a faded rosebud - a missile that should never have reached you - and down you drop to the ground.
life half way
...I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say - feel for all you're worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live...
fashion art criticism
Nothing, of course, will ever take the place of the good old fashion of 'liking' a work of art or not liking it; the more improved criticism will not abolish that primitive, that ultimate, test.
light mind literature
He valued life and literature equally for the light they threw upon each other; to his mind one implied the other; he was unable to conceive of them apart.