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.
HENRY JAMESIf I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
More Henry James Quotes
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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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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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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