Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
HENRY JAMESShe feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
More Henry James Quotes
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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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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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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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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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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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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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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