Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
HENRY JAMESThe superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
More Henry James Quotes
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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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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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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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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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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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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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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Things are always different from what they might be.
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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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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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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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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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