James, Henry Quotes

News · Recent record foreclosures and continued instability in the housing ma ... >>

James, Henry

Search the web for James, Henry. Click to share this page:

· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/3764/">Quotes by <em>James, Henry</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

Henry James, OM (April 15, 1843 February 28, 1916), son of Henry James Sr. and brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James, was an American-born author and literary critic of the late 19th and early 20th century. He spent much of his life in Europe and became a British subject shortly before his death. He is primarily known for novels, novellas and short stories based upon themes of consciousness. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"In art economy is always beauty."

James, Henry · Editing and Editors · 1 fans >>
Blog it, Share it with someone, or Email it

Bookmark

"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."

James, Henry · Exile · 0 fans >>
Blog it, Share it with someone, or Email it

Bookmark

"The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life in general so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it --this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience."

James, Henry · Experience · 0 fans >>
Blog it, Share it with someone, or Email it

Bookmark

"Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue."

James, Henry · Experience · 0 fans >>
Blog it, Share it with someone, or Email it

Bookmark

"Deep experience is never peaceful."

James, Henry · Experience · 1 fans >>
Blog it, Share it with someone, or Email it

This quote can be viewed in the context of a book

Bookmark

"The fatal futility of Fact."

James, Henry · Facts · 1 fans >>
Blog it, Share it with someone, or Email it

Bookmark

"I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway and we are deprived of them."

James, Henry · Feminism · 0 fans >>
Blog it, Share it with someone, or Email it

Bookmark

"The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life."

James, Henry · Fiction · 0 fans >>
Blog it, Share it with someone, or Email it

Bookmark

"The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending."

James, Henry · Fiction · 0 fans >>
Blog it, Share it with someone, or Email it

Bookmark

"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."

James, Henry · America · 2 fans >>
Blog it, Share it with someone, or Email it

Bookmark

But wait... There are more: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 next