James, Henry quotes

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Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
Few writers have had less journalistic talent than James, and th
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Few writers have had less journalistic talent than James, and this is his defect, for the supreme masters have one trait in common ...
Now that Stevenson is dead I can think of but one English- speaking author who is really keeping his self-respect and sticking for ...
The poet had a less sensitive grasp of language than the novelist and a less profound feeling for symbolism, so that his verse nar ...
He was a young lady in so many ways. A Victorian lady. Somewhere inside him, there was an adolescent girl.
The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and the ...
Tell the boys to follow, to be faithful, to take me seriously.
The differences between the youthful H.G. Wells and the mature Henry James were so basic and numerous that it seems almost miracul ...
A second-class mind dealing with third-class material is hardly a necessity of life.
He did not live, he observed life from a window, and too often was inclined to content himself with no more than what his friends ...
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