Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
HENRY JAMESDo not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
More Henry James Quotes
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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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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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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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 don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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