Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
HENRY JAMESIf this was love, love had been overrated.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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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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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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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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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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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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