I gave you my heart and that’s all I can give you and if that’s not enough for you then I’m not enough for you. — Henry James Jr.
A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals. — Henry James Jr.
Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself. — Henry James Jr.
I hate american simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. — Henry James Jr.
It’s a complex fate, being an american, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting — Henry James Jr.
One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries — Henry James Jr.
People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point — Henry James Jr.
The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient — Henry James Jr.
The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life. — Henry James Jr.
The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman. — Henry James Jr.
There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. — Henry James Jr.
There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition. — Henry James Jr.
Though there are some disagreeable things in venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors. — Henry James Jr.
Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour — Henry James Jr.
What is character but the determination of incident? what is incident but the illustration of character? — Henry James Jr.
Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them — Henry James Jr.