An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
HENRY JAMESYou are good for nothing unless you are clever.
More Henry James Quotes
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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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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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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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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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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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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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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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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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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Excellence does not require perfection.
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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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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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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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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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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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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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