Quotes by James, Henry

Summer afternoon -- summer afternoon; to me those have always been the >>

The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending. >>

The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certai >>

Quotations about America

The superficiality of the American is the result of his hustling. It n >>

America is like one of those old-fashioned six-cylinder truck engines >>

This monster of a land, this mightiest of nations, this spawn of the f >>

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.

James, Henry