His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
HENRY JAMESI’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
More Henry James Quotes
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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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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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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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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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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