Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all! Henry James More Quotes by Henry James More Quotes From Henry James She had her own way of doing all that she did, and this is the simplest description of a character which, although by no means without liberal motions, rarely succeeded in giving an impression of suavity. Henry James giving character mean To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text. Henry James read-between-the-lines reading book Happy you poets who can be present and so present by a simple flicker of your genius, and not, like the clumsier race, have to laya train and pile up faggots that may not after prove in the least combustible! Henry James poetry race simple Autobiography may be the preeminent kind of American expression. Henry James kind expression may All roads lead to Rome, and there were times when it might have struck us that almost every branch of study or subject of conversation skirted forbidden ground. Henry James rome branches might I have only to let myself go! So I have said all my life, yet I have never fully done it. Henry James freedom done said Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one's self to an idea. Henry James self ideas art Kidd, turn off the light to spare my blushes. Henry James spares turns light Most English talk is a quadrille in a sentry-box. Henry James boxes england conversation 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 acceptance self thinking Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better. Henry James very-good stories ideas If the artist is necessarily sensitive, does that sensitiveness form in its essence a state constantly liable to shade off into the morbid? Does this liability, moreover, increase in proportion as the effort is great and the ambition intense? Henry James artist essence ambition 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 regret birthday thinking [Thomas Henry] Huxley is a very genial, comfortable being-yet with none of the noisy and windy geniality of some folks here, whom you find with their backs turned when you are responding to the remarks that they have made you. Henry James biographies noise science I could come back to America..to die..but never, never to live. Henry James dies america Always keep a window in the attic open; not just cracked: open. Henry James attics cracked window I've struck up a tremendous intimacy with Conte Alberto, and we literally can't live without each other. He is the first object my eyes greet in the morning, and the last at night. Henry James eye morning night Am I solemn? I had an idea I was grinning from ear to ear." "You look as if you were taking me to a prayer-meeting or a funeral. If that's a grin your ears are very near together." "Should you like me to dance a hornpipe on the deck?" "Pray do, and I'll carry round your hat. It'll pay the expenses of our journey. Henry James journey prayer ideas Really, universally, relations stop nowhere, and the exquisite problem of the artist is eternally but to draw, by a geometry of his own, the circle within which they shall happily appear to do so. Henry James circles problem artist We are divided of course between liking to feel the past strange and liking to feel it familiar. Henry James familiar strange past
