Henry James Quotes

“Nora seemed by instinct to have perceived the fitness of her not speaking of her own affairs, and indeed displayed in the matter a precocious good taste.”
― Henry James, Henry James: The Complete Novels

“Well, you must be pretty desperate when you have got to go to Boston for your entertainment.”
― Henry James, Henry James: The Complete Collection

“Supreme beauty suddenly revealed is apt to strike us as a possible illusion playing with our desire—instant freedom with it to strike us as a possible rashness. This fortunately,”
― Henry James, Henry James: The Complete Collection

“for the modern indignity of travel—the promiscuities and vulgarities, the station and the hotel, the gregarious patience, the struggle for a scrappy attention, the reduction to a numbered state. The”
― Henry James, Henry James: The Complete Collection

“clock”
― Henry James, Henry James: The Complete Collection