She had an unequalled gift… of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Henry James
She was a woman who, between courses, co…
She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Henry James
Summer afternoon – Summer afternoon… t…
Summer afternoon – Summer afternoon… the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Henry James
The only obligation to which in advance …
The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Henry James
The only success worth one’s powder was …
The only success worth one’s powder was success in the line of one’s idiosyncrasy . what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be
Quote, saying and phrase by: Henry James
There are moods in which one feels the i…
There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this starving and sinning world. One turns half away, musingly, from certain beautiful useless things.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Henry James
Three things in human life are important…
Three things in human life are important the first is to be kind the second is to be kind and the third is to be kind.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Henry James
True happiness, we are told, consists in…
True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self, but the point is not only to get out, you must stay out and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Henry James