Henry James: Trending quotes (page 2)

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

“I'm yours for ever--for ever and ever. Here I stand; I'm as firm as a rock. If you'll only trust me, how little you'll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.”

“Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.”

“I always want to know the things one shouldn't do."
"So as to do them?" asked her aunt.
"So as to choose." said Isabel”

“Live all you can — it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?”

“And remember this, that if you've been hated, you've also been loved.”

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

“Try to be one of those on whom nothing is lost.”

“Obstacles are those frightening things you see when you take you eyes off your goal.”

“She is written in a foreign tongue.”

“If this was love, love had been overrated.”

“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”

“Things are always different than what they might be… If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.”

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

“Don't pass it by--the immediate, the real, the only, the yours.”

“… and the great advantage of being a literary woman, was that you could go everywhere and do everything.”

“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.”

“Excellence does not require perfection.”

“When I am wicked I am in high spirits.”