An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
HENRY JAMESLife is a predicament which precedes death.
More Henry James Quotes
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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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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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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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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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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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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