Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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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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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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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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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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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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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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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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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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