Henry James Quotes & Quotations

Henry James Quotes

» Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!

» To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

» In art economy is always beauty.

» Deep experience is never peaceful.

» Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

» The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life in general so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it --this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.

» She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

» I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.

» The fatal futility of Fact.

» I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway and we are deprived of them.

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