Quotes by James, Henry

Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing s >>

I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications >>

A man who pretends to understand women is ad manners. For him to reall >>

Quotations about Writers and Writing

In general I do not draw well with literary men -- not that I dislike >>

You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your childre >>

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good w >>

He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.

James, Henry