One can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant. Henry James More Quotes by Henry James More Quotes From Henry James The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself. Henry James may men world I take up my own pen again - the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles. To myself - today - I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will. Henry James effort struggle needs The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life - that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience. Henry James degrees mind art Never say you know the last word about any human heart. Henry James novelists knowing heart Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost! Henry James trying inspirational people A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it. Henry James tradition alive To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own. Henry James appreciate criticism intellectual In art economy is always beauty. Henry James editing beauty art It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent. Henry James cheerful london speak Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup. Henry James sprinkles cooking food Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there. Henry James monkeys cat animal We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art...what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered. 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 beautiful art Things are always different from what they might be. Henry James different journey spiritual Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors. Henry James tourism venice travel To take what there is in life 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. Henry James time inspirational life Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. Henry James ambassadors inspirational-life mistake She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering. Henry James staring curiosity wonder Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize. Henry James delicate prize pursue He was there or was not there: not there if I didn't see him. Henry James ifs No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles, nor manors, nor old country-houses, nor parsonages, nor thatched cottages nor ivied ruins no cathedrals, nor abbeys, nor little Norman churches no great Universities nor public schools -- no Oxford, nor Eton, nor Harrow no literature, no novels, no museums, no pictures, no political society, no sporting class -- no Epsom nor Ascot Some such list as that might be drawn up of the absent things in American life. Henry James loyalty country school
