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.
HENRY JAMESI think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
More Henry James Quotes
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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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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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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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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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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