Henry James Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.”

“Ideas are, in truth, force.”

“Life is a predicament which precedes death.”

“I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.”

“An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.”

“It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.”

“It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.”

“In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.”

“People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.”

“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?”