Henry James
15 quotations
In art economy is always beauty.
Deep experience is never peaceful.
The fatal futility of Fact.
The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.
The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.
Ideas are, in truth, force.
The terrible fluidity of self-revelation.
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.
In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.
I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.
I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.