Quotes by : Henry James

He liked however the open shutters; he opened everywhere those Mrs. Muldoon had closed, closing them....

..if I dont do something on the grand scale, it is that my genius is altogether imitative, and that I....

What we often take to be the new is simply the old under some novel form.

Mrs. Almond lived much farther up town, in an embryonic street with a high number—a region where the....

Take the word for it of a man who has made his way inch by inch, and does not believe that we'll wake....

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

The news that Daisy Miller was surrounded by half a dozen wonderful mustaches checked Winterbourne's....

Our relation, all round, exists--it's a reality, and a very good one; we're mixed up, so to speak, and....

She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth.....

They had from an early hour made up their mind that society was, luckily, unintelligent, and the margin....