I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
HENRY JAMESI’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
More Henry James Quotes
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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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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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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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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