She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering. Henry James More Quotes by Henry James More Quotes From Henry James To believe in a child is to believe in the future. Through their aspirations they will save the world. With their combined knowledge the turbulent seas of hate and injustice will be calmed. Henry James hatebelievechildren The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending. Henry James saucebreadtime Her memory's your love. You want no other. Henry James wantlove-youmemories 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 fortyignorantjudging I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme. Henry James literaturewritinglove All the same don't forget that you're young — blessedly young; be glad of it on the contrary and live up to it. 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. Henry James gratitudemattermistake She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities. Henry James mistakeopportunityhands The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience. Henry James unseenpiecesjudging Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic. Henry James envelopesepicreading She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table. Henry James courseselbowstables Art without life is a poor affair. Henry James affairlife-isart Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt. Henry James adjectivessugarliterature In the long run an opinion often borrows credit from the forbearance of its patrons. Henry James creditrunninglong Life being all inclusion and confusion, and art being all discrimination and selection, the latter, in search of the hard latent value with which it alone is concerned, sniffs round the mass as instinctively and unerringly as a dog suspicious of some buried bone. Henry James confusiondogart It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe. Henry James fatefightingresponsibility The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks. She spent half her time in thinking of beauty, bravery, magnanimity; she had a fixed determination to regard the world as a place of brightness, of free expansion, of irresistible action, she thought it would be detestable to be afraid or ashamed. She had an infinite hope that she would never do anything wrong. She had resented so strongly, after discovering them, her mere errors of feeling. Henry James girldeterminationthinking You are good for nothing unless you are clever. Henry James clever There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding. Henry James basesunionsusual In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives. Henry James radicalpalacesmuseums You think too much.' 'I suppose I do; but I can’t help it, my mind is so terribly active. When I give myself, I give myself. I pay the penalty in my headaches, my famous headaches--a perfect circlet of pain! But I carry it as a queen carries her crown. Henry James painqueensthinking
