He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
HENRY JAMESThe right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
More Henry James Quotes
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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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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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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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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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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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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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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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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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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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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