Henry James

I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.

Henry James

I have in my own fashion learned the lesson that life is effort, unremittingly repeated.

Henry James

I have never allowed a gentleman to dictate to me, or to interfere with anything I do.

Henry James

I have only to let myself go! So I have said all my life, yet I have never fully done it.

Henry James

I never did anything in life to anyone’s imagination.

Henry James

I think patriotism is like charity – it begins at home.

Henry James

I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.

Henry James

I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.

Henry James

Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.

Henry James

If you look for grand examples of anything from me, I shall disappoint you.

Henry James