Henry James

Cats and monkeys - monkeys and cats - all human life is there! ↗

— Henry James

#human #life #monkeys #life

Try to be someone upon whom nothing is lost! ↗

— Henry James

#authorship #fiction #writing #art

Our relation, all round, exists--it's a reality, and a very good one; we're mixed up, so to speak, and it's too late to change it. We must live IN it and with it ↗

— Henry James

#perspective #reality #change

Still, who could say what men ever were looking for? They looked for what they found; they knew what pleased them only when they saw it. ↗

— Henry James

#men #relationships #tastes #types #love

The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times. ↗

— Henry James

#greatness #occasion #self #truth #nature

It had been agreed between them that lighted candles at wayside inns, in strange countries amid mountain scenery, gave the evening meal a peculiar poetry. ↗

— Henry James

#travel #food

There are few hours in life more agreeable than the ceremony known as afternoon tea ↗

— Henry James

#classics #edwardian #life

A family is a little world within doors; the miniature resemblance of the great worls without ↗

— Henry James

#family

He was allying himself to science, for what was science but the absence of prejudice backed by the presence of money? His life would be full of machinery, which was the antidote to superstition ... ↗

— Henry James

#life

Italy, all the same, had spoiled a great many people; he was even fatuous enough to believe at times that he himself might have been a better man if he had spent less of his life there. ↗

— Henry James

#life