What did Henry James mean by: I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did. Henry James Author · USA Copy
Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henry James, Contradiction, Temptation, Wealth, 0 Henry James Author · USA
The artist beholds in nature more than she herself Nature is conscious of. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henry James, Beauty, Inspiration, Perception, 0 Henry James Author · USA
My sole wish is to frustrate as utterly as possible the post-mortem exploiter. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henry James, Exploitation, Frustration, 0 Henry James Author · USA
+ She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS. Author, March 9, 2023December 25, 2024, Henry James, Communication, Emotion, Thought, 0 Henry James Author · USA
Women never dine alone. When they dine alone they don’t dine. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henry James, Expectations, Gender, Social, 0 Henry James Author · USA
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henry James, History, Literature, Production, 0 Henry James Author · USA
I have in my own fashion learned the lesson that life is effort, unremittingly repeated. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henry James, Effort, Life, Persistence, 0 Henry James Author · USA
The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henry James, Perception, Reflection, Self-discovery, 0 Henry James Author · USA
A person’s worth in this world is estimated according to the value he puts on himself. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father. Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
Conjuring is a profession in which no one errs through excess of modesty. Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin Magician · France
