All Henry James Quotes
What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
Henry James
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I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.
Henry James
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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A man who pretends to understand women is ad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.
Henry James
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
Henry James
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Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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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.
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The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.
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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
Henry James
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