Top 20 Alice James Quotes (2024 Update)

Alice James Quote: “Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected.”

1. “Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected.”

— Alice James

Alice James Quote: “Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.”

2. “Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.”

— Alice James

Alice James Quote: “Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.”

3. “Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.”

— Alice James

Alice James Quote: “It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.”

4. “It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.”

— Alice James

Alice James Quote: “It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!”

5. “It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!”

— Alice James

Alice James Quote: “You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.”

6. “You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.”

— Alice James

Alice James Quote: “Destitution and excessive luxury develop apparently the same ideals, the same marauding attitude towards mankind, the intensity of struggle for material goods, – surely showing how perfect is the meeting of extremes.”

7. “Destitution and excessive luxury develop apparently the same ideals, the same marauding attitude towards mankind, the intensity of struggle for material goods, – surely showing how perfect is the meeting of extremes.”

— Alice James

Alice James Quote: “The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.”

8. “The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.”

— Alice James

Alice James Quote: “I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.”

9. “I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.”

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Alice James Quote: “If I can get on to my sofa and occupy myself for four hours, at intervals through the day, scribbling my notes, and able to read the books that belong to me, in that they clarify the density, and shape the formless mass within, life seems inconceivably rich...”

10. “If I can get on to my sofa and occupy myself for four hours, at intervals through the day, scribbling my notes, and able to read the books that belong to me, in that they clarify the density, and shape the formless mass within, life seems inconceivably rich...”

— Alice James

Alice James Quote: “What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.”

11. “What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.”

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Alice James Quote: “The gain isn’t counted to the recluse and inactive that, having nothing to measure themselves by and never being tested by failure, they simmer and soak perpetually in conscious complacency.”

12. “The gain isn’t counted to the recluse and inactive that, having nothing to measure themselves by and never being tested by failure, they simmer and soak perpetually in conscious complacency.”

— Alice James

Alice James Quote: “I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.”

13. “I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.”

— Alice James

Alice James Quote: “How fatally the entire want of humor cripples the mind.”

14. “How fatally the entire want of humor cripples the mind.”

— Alice James

Alice James Quote: “How sick one gets of being “good,” how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.”

15. “How sick one gets of being “good,” how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.”

— Alice James

Alice James Quote: “The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can’t tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?”

16. “The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can’t tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?”

— Alice James

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Alice James Quote: “One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.”

17. “One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.”

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Alice James Quote: “Original sin is my only refuge, I was born bad and I never have recovered.”

18. “Original sin is my only refuge, I was born bad and I never have recovered.”

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Alice James Quote: “What one reads, or rather all that comes to us, is surely only of interest and value in proportion as we find ourselves therein, – form given to what was vague, what slumbered stirred to life.”

19. “What one reads, or rather all that comes to us, is surely only of interest and value in proportion as we find ourselves therein, – form given to what was vague, what slumbered stirred to life.”

— Alice James

Alice James Quote: “Sargy always had the capacities of a cormorant, so he is able to swallow her whole, not having to think about her as she is going down must make it easier.”

20. “Sargy always had the capacities of a cormorant, so he is able to swallow her whole, not having to think about her as she is going down must make it easier.”

— Alice James

Alice James Quote: “Notwithstanding the poverty of my outside experience, I have always had a significance for myself, and every chance to stumle along my straight and narrow little path, and to worship at the feet of my Deity, and what more can a human soul ask for?”

21. “Notwithstanding the poverty of my outside experience, I have always had a significance for myself, and every chance to stumle along my straight and narrow little path, and to worship at the feet of my Deity, and what more can a human soul ask for?”

— Alice James

Alice James Quote: “How heroic to be able to suppress one’s vanity to the extent of confessing that the game is too hard.”

22. “How heroic to be able to suppress one’s vanity to the extent of confessing that the game is too hard.”

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Alice James Quote: “Ah! Those strange people who have the courage to be unhappy! Are they unhappy, by the way?”

23. “Ah! Those strange people who have the courage to be unhappy! Are they unhappy, by the way?”

— Alice James

Alice James Quote: “Who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?”

24. “Who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?”

— Alice James

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