List of quotes from Henry James
"I adore adverbs they are the only qualifications I really much respect."
by Henry James
"Deep experience is never peaceful."
by Henry James
"Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself."
by Henry James
"Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language."
by Henry James
"He had the entertainment of thinking that if he had for that moment stopped the clock it was to promote the next minute this still livelier motion."
by Book Eighth Henry James The Ambassadors
"She had fortunately always her appetite for news. The pure flame of the disinterested burned in her cave of treasures as a lamp in a Byzantine vault."
by Book Ninth Henry James The Ambassadors
"There are certainly moments, said Chad, when you seem to me too good to be true. Yet if you are true, he added, that seems to be all that need concern me."
by Book Eleventh Henry James The Ambassadors
"I feel how little she can like being told of her owing me anything. No woman ever enjoys such an obligation to another woman."
by Book Seventh Henry James The Ambassadors
"It struck him really that he had never so lived with her as during this period of her silence; the silence was a sacred hush, a finer clearer medium, in which her idiosyncrasies showed."
by Book Seventh Henry James The Ambassadors