I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
HENRY JAMESAdjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
More Henry James Quotes
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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