Henry James People Quotations

People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.

She is the one who leads the people of Little Egg Harbor to freedom.

I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.

There were always people to snatch at you, and it would never occur to them that they were eating you up. They did that without tasting.

If I should certainly say to a novice, 'Write from experience and experience only,' I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, 'Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.'

People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course--with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here--to keep an eye on the fleeting hour.

Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!

We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.

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

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