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.
HENRY JAMESI think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
More Henry James Quotes
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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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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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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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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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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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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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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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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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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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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