Henry James

In American, the gentlemen obey the ladies.

Henry James

In art economy is always beauty.

Henry James

Intelligent, unscrupulous, determined, and capable of seeing a man strangled without changing color.

Henry James

It doesn’t matter what you do in particular, so long as you have had your life.

Henry James

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, and I know of no substitute for the force and beauty of it’s process.

Henry James

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

Henry James

It takes a great deal to make a successful American, but to make a happy Venetian takes only a handful of quick sensibility.

Henry James

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

Henry James

It was the tragic part of happiness; one’s right was always made of the wrong of some one else.

Henry James

London is on the whole the most possible form of life.

Henry James