Quotes by : Alice James

In looking back now, I see how it began in my childhood, altho’ I was not conscious of the necessity....

Who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of....

Though I have no productive worth I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.

It is so comical to hear oneself called old even at ninety I suppose!

The fact is, I have been dead so long and it has been simply such a grim shoving of the hours behind....

Truly nothing is to be expected but the unexpected.

One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human....

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.....

If I can get on to my sofa and occupy myself for four hours, at intervals through the day, scribbling....