I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
HENRY JAMESThough there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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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’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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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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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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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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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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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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