An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.
- Henry James Quote

Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
- Henry James Quote

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
- Henry James Quote

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.
- Henry James Quote

I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.
- Henry James Quote

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.
- Henry James Quote

I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
- Henry James Quote

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth-I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.
- Henry James Quote

I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.
- Henry James Quote

If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.
- Henry James Quote

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
- Henry James Quote

It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.
- Henry James Quote

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
- Henry James Quote

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
- Henry James Quote

Life is a predicament which precedes death.
- Henry James Quote

Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?
- Henry James Quote

Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
- Henry James Quote

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.
- Henry James Quote

The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.
- Henry James Quote

The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.
- Henry James Quote

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?
- Henry James Quote

The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
- Henry James Quote

There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
- Henry James Quote

Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
- Henry James Quote

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.
- Henry James Quote

To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.
- Henry James Quote

Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
- Henry James Quote

We work n the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
- Henry James Quote

What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
- Henry James Quote