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Letter "H" » Henry James Quotes
«A man who pretends to understand women is ad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.»
«The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.»
«I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway and we are deprived of them.»
«To treat a ''big'' subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening's traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large.»
«The terrible fluidity of self-revelation.»
«One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.»
«So here it is at last, the distinguished thing!»
«Tell the boys to follow, to be faithful, to take me seriously.»
«The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take.»