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| Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are ''shaggy dog'' stories; they have a point, but he who tries too hard to get it will miss it. | | Uncategorized | |
| Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really is my enemy, that I am free to marry a woman when in fact she is my mother, that this person is a chambermaid when it is a young nobleman in disguise, that this well-dressed young man is rich when he is really a penniless adventurer, or that if I do this such and such a result will follow when in fact it results in something very different. All good drama has two movements, first the making of the mistake, then the discovery that it was a mistake. | | Uncategorized | |
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| Even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on with their doggy life | | Dogs | |
| Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one. | | Uncategorized | |
| Every European visitor to the United States is struck by the comparative rarity of what he would call a face, by the frequency of men and women who look like elderly babies. If he stays in the States for any length of time, he will learn that this cannot be put down to a lack of sensibility -- the American feels the joys and sufferings of human life as keenly as anybody else. The only plausible explanation I can find lies in his different attitude to the past. To have a face, in the European sense of the word, it would seem that one must not only enjoy and suffer but also desire to preserve the memory of even the most humiliating and unpleasant experiences of the past. | | Uncategorized | |
| Every high C accurately struck demolishes the theory that we are the irresponsible puppets of fate or chance | | Uncategorized | |
| Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow. | | Uncategorized | |
| Evil is unspectacular and always human And shares our bed and eats at our own table | | Evil | |
| Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. | | Uncategorized | |
| Few writers have had less journalistic talent than James, and this is his defect, for the supreme masters have one trait in common with the childish scribbling mass, the vulgar curiosity of a police-court reporter. | | Uncategorized | |
| Five minutes on even the nicest mountain / Is awfully long. | | Uncategorized | |
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| Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do. | | Genius | |
| God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich. | | Uncategorized | |
| Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good | | Uncategorized | |
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| Harrow the house of the dead; look shining at / New styles of architecture, a change of heart. | | Uncategorized | |
| He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong. | | Uncategorized | |
| Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say | | Health; Medicine | |
