The Best Short Stories of All Time, Volume III Quotes

“Let your ideas be second-hand, and if possible tenth-hand, for then they will be far removed from that disturbing element- direct observation.”
― Henry James, The Best Short Stories of All Time, Volume III

“And in time"-his voice rose-"there will come a generation that had got beyond facts, beyond impressions, a generation absolutely colourless, a generation seraphically free From taint of personality, which will see the French Revolution not as it happened, nor as they would like it to have happened, but as it would have happened, had it taken place in the days of the Machine.”
― Henry James, The Best Short Stories of All Time, Volume III

“She answered that she liked standing up and”
― Henry James, The Best Short Stories of All Time, Volume III

“Imprimis: I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.”
― Henry James, The Best Short Stories of All Time, Volume III

“In short, the truth of the matter was, Nippers knew not what he wanted. Or, if he wanted any thing,”
― Henry James, The Best Short Stories of All Time, Volume III

“But the blots, Turkey," intimated I. "True,-but, with submission, sir, behold these hairs! I am getting old. Surely, sir, a blot or two of a warm afternoon is not to be severely urged against gray hairs. Old age-even if it blot the page-is honorable. With submission, sir, we both are getting old.”
― Henry James, The Best Short Stories of All Time, Volume III