James, Henry (1843 – 1916), British (US-born) author
I’ve always been interested in people, but I’ve never liked them.
Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
Live all you can: It’s a mistake not to.
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
Summer afternoon – Summer afternoon… the two most beautiful words in the English language.
There are women who are for all your ‘times of life’. They’re the most wonderful sort.
It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under-value them.
