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
ifs
if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
beautiful mean together
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.
sunshine rome atoms
She had always been fond of history, and here [in Rome] was history in the stones of the street and the atoms of the sunshine.
london form city-life
London is on the whole the most possible form of life.
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.
bread sauce happy-endings
The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.
facts futility
The fatal futility of Fact.
sarcastic grease sausage
He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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.
country tombstone sea
Novelist-Citizen of Two Countries Interpreter of his Generation on both Sides of the Sea.
hate names usa
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.
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.