Henry James on delicate
Henry James112 quotes“Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.”
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
Henry JamesHenry James She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
Henry JamesHenry James Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
Henry JamesHenry James She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
Henry JamesHenry James A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
Henry JamesHenry James To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
Henry JamesHenry James She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
Henry JamesHenry James You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
Henry JamesHenry James His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
Henry JamesHenry James It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
Henry JamesHenry James Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
Henry JamesHenry James One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
Henry JamesHenry James Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
Henry JamesHenry James The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
Henry JamesHenry James I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
Henry JamesHenry James Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
John DonneJohn Donne Her delicate breasts shake his enormous apparatus in elaborate worship.
Lauren EdenLauren Eden Love is knowing that she is delicate and not breaking her still.
Sumiran ThapaSumiran Thapa Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight; With wings of gentle flush o’er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings.
John KeatsJohn Keats The trust to hold what is delicate within you should only be given to someone whose hands are as gentle as your heart.
Ranata SuzukiRanata Suzuki A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow.
OvidOvid The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.
OvidOvid A tiny bit of obscure delicacy written all over her face at all times.
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