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
sarcastic grease sausage
He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
men ninety-nine class
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.
museums palaces radical
In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.
love writing literature
I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
two taste recognition
There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.
acceptance thinking self
It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.
men moral manners
A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
birthday regret thinking
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.
men judging literature
The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
kindness air imperfection
Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.
caring garden long
Little by little, even with other cares, the slowly but surely working poison of the garden-mania begins to stir in my long-sluggish veins.
next development periods
Her chief dread in life, at this period of her development, was that she would appear narrow minded; what she feared next afterwards was that she should be so.
strong book imagination
To say that she had a book is to say that her solitude did not press upon her; for her love of knowledge had a fertilizing quality and her imagination was strong. There was at this time, however, a want of lightness in her situation, which the arrival of an unexpected visitor did much to dispel.
wicked spirit
When I am wicked I am in high spirits.