The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
HENRY JAMESWhat is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
More Henry James Quotes
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I’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.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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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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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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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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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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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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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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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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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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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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