Henry James Quotes, Thoughts and images

It's time to start living the life you've imagined.

Excellence does not require perfection.

Until you try, you don't know what you can't do.

Life is a predicament that precedes death.

You must save what you can of your life; you mustn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.

Love has nothing to do with good reasons.

I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.

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

Never say you know the last word about any human heart.

Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.

She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.

if you are going to be pushed you had better jump.

Live all you can; it's a mistake not to.

I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination.

The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.

It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life except for play games.

If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.

It's never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.

The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.

Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!

Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.

I don't care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.

Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.

To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.

Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.

Things are always different from what they might be.

One doesn't defend one's god: one's god is in himself a defense.