Henry James's Quotes

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

Deep experience is never peaceful.

Henry James

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

Henry James

Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.

Henry James

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

However British you may be, I am more British still.

Henry James

The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.

Henry James

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

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