Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
HENRY JAMESThere 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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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 I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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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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Excellence does not require perfection.
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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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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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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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