Henry James Literature Quotations

Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.

I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.

He valued life and literature equally for the light they threw upon each other; to his mind one implied the other; he was unable to conceive of them apart.