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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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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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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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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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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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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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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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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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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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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