Quotes by James, Henry

What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident >>

To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text. >>

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know >>

Quotations about Tact and Tactfulness

So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discret >>

One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house. >>

The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the mood's of >>

Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to check the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way.

James, Henry