Quotes By Henry James

There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.

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

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

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?

Deep experience is never peaceful.

Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.

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

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

I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.

I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.

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.

One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.

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