Quotes by : Henry James

I might show it to you, but you'd never see it. The privilege isn't given to every one; it's not enviable.....

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

It comes over me that I had then a strange alter ego deep down somewhere inside me, as the full-blown....

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.....

The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.

I take up my own pen again - the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles. To myself....

The American girl isn't ANY girl she's a remarkable specimen in a remarkable species.

The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times.

It seemed to him he had waited an age for some stir of the great grim hush; the life of the town was....

She had been expecting me and was ready. She gave a long slow soundless headshake, merciful only in being....