A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
HENRY JAMESOne can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
More Henry James Quotes
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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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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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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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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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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