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.
HENRY JAMESUntil you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
More Henry James Quotes
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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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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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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