I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
HENRY JAMESDon’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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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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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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