Henry James Quotes

“I don't want every one to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

topic:self

“You wanted to look at life for yourself—but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the very mill of the conventional!”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

topic:self

“He's the victim of a critical age; he has ceased to believe in himself and he doesn't know what to believe in.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

topic:self belief age

“Isabel’s written in a foreign tongue. I can’t make her out.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

topic:understanding

“Her reputation of reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic; it was supposed to engender difficult questions and to keep the conversation at a low temperature.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

topic:reading books

“There's no more usual basis of union than a mutual misunderstanding.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

“One can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

topic:youth ignorance judgement

“Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

“I never know what I mean in my telegrams—especially those I send from America. Clearness is too expensive.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

topic:meaning

“her deepest enjoyment was to feel the continuity between the movements of her own soul and the agitations of the world.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

topic:soul

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