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
bread sauce happy-endings
The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.
art congratulations lines
The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?
daughter autumn flames
A solitary maple on a woodside flames in single scarlet, recalls nothing so much as the daughter of a noble house dressed for a fancy ball, with the whole family gathered around to admire her before she goes.
gratitude mistake matter
Live all you can. It's a mistake not to. It doesn't much matter what you do in particular, so much as you LIVE while you're doing it.
bored feminism shut-up
I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway and we are deprived of them.
reading pieces hated
One of my latest sensations was going to Lady Airlie's to hear Browning read his own poems - with the comport of finding that, at least, if you don't understand them, he himself apparently understands them even less. He read them as if he hated them and would like to bite them to pieces.
cheerful london speak
It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
people care proportion
We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
character ideas two
Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
wine violet florence
Everything about Florence seems to be colored with a mild violet, like diluted wine.
thinking feels
She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
learning ideas force
Ideas are, in truth, force.
home patriotic thinking
I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.
curiosity wonder staring
She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.