Quotes by Henry James

Without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that, this doubtless is the right way to live.

Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

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.

To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.

The final futility of fact.

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

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 favour of doing it.

I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind.

She felt in italics and thought in capitals.