Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Henry Green

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English author Henry Green.

Last updated on December 20, 2024.

Henry Green was the pen name of Henry Vincent Yorke, an English writer best remembered for the novels Party Going, Living and Loving. He published a total of nine novels between 1926 and 1952.

English - Author | October 29, 1905 - December 13, 1973

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To me the purpose of art is to produce something alive...but with a separate, and of course one hopes, with an everlasting life of its own.

Henry Green

I can tell a good cowboy by the way he approaches a cow.

Henry Green

After fifty, one ceases to digest. As someone once said, "I just ferment my food now."

Henry Green

The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.

Henry Green

At my public school I had hated every other face for fear the owner was a lord, at university, I was to court the rich while doubting whether there should be great inequalities between incomes.

Henry Green

Prose is not to be read aloud but to oneself alone at night, and it is not quick as poetry but rather a gathering web of insinuations ... Prose should be a long intimacy between strangers with no direct appeal to what both may have known. It should slowly appeal to feelings unexpressed, it should in the end draw tears out of the stone.

Henry Green

If you can make the reader laugh he is apt to get careless and go on reading.

Henry Green

The miracle is that a work of art should live in the person who reads it.

Henry Green