I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
HENRY JAMESHowever British you may be, I am more British still.
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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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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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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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 feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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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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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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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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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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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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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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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 work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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