Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
HENRY JAMESAmericans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
More Henry James Quotes
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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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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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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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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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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