An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
HENRY JAMESHe is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
More Henry James Quotes
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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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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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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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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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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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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All intimacies are based on differences.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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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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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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