6 Henry James Quotes on Society

Henry James quotes on society

1. In the long run an opinion often borrows credit from the forbearance of its patrons.

8. One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.

11. 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 of the earth are in a conspiracy to undervalue them.

12. Cats and monkeys - monkeys and cats - all human life is there!

16. You wanted to look at life for yourself - but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the very mill of the conventional!

25. The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.