An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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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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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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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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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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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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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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Things are always different from what they might be.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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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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Excellence does not require perfection.
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