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 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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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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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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