The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
HENRY JAMESI hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
More Henry James Quotes
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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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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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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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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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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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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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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