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.
HENRY JAMESAnd we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
More Henry James Quotes
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In art economy is always beauty.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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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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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 hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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