If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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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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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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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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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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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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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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