The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
HENRY JAMESA man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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Excellence does not require perfection.
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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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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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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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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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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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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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