…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
HENRY JAMESOne can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
More Henry James Quotes
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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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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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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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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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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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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