Quote #78

Life's too short for chess.

Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.

More from Henry James

  1. Ideas are, in truth, force.
  2. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
  3. Life is a predicament which precedes death.
  4. It's time to start living the life you've imagined.
  5. I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.
  6. The terrible fluidity of self-revelation.
  7. In art economy is always beauty.
  8. The ever importunate murmur, 'Dramatize it, dramatize it!'

All Henry James quotes