Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
HENRY JAMESIt is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
More Henry James Quotes
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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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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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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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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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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