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 JAMESYou are good for nothing unless you are clever.
More Henry James Quotes
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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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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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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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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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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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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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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