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Henry James Quote: “She hadn’t given up yet, and the broken sentence, if she was the last word, would end with a sort of meaning.”
Henry James Quote: “THEY have the manners to be silent, and you, trusted as you are, the baseness to speak!”
Henry James Quote: “The vanity of women had long memories, but she was making no claim on him of a compliment or a mistake.”
Henry James Quote: “One never said the things one wanted – one remembered them all an hour afterwards. On the other hand one usually said a lot of things one shouldn’t, simply from a sense that one had to say something.”
Henry James Quote: “When the possibilities themselves had accordingly turned stale, when the secret of the gods had grown faint, had perhaps even quite evaporated, that, and that only, was failure. It wouldn’t have been failure to be bankrupt, dishonoured, pilloried, hanged; it was failure not to be anything.”
Henry James Quote: “He himself was almost never bored, and there was no man with whom it would have been a greater mistake to suppose that silence meant displeasure.”
Henry James Quote: “But if we may perish by cracks in things that we don’t know.”
Henry James Quote: “I welcomed the consciousness that I was charged with much to do, and I caused it to be known as well that, left thus to myself, I was quite remarkably firm.”
Henry James Quote: “However British you may be, I am more British still.”
Henry James Quote: “His full parenthesis was closed, and he was once more but a sentence, of a sort, in the general text, the text that, from his momentary street-corner, showed as a great grey page of print that somehow managed to be crowded without being ‘fine’.”
Henry James Quote: “She had always observed that she got on better with clever women than silly ones like herself; the silly ones could never understand her wisdom; whereas the clever ones – the really clever ones – always understood her silliness.”
Henry James Quote: “It had been agreed between them that lighted candles at wayside inns, in strange countries amid mountain scenery, gave the evening meal a peculiar poetry.”
Henry James Quote: “It is as difficult to suppose a person intending to write a modern English, as to suppose him writing an ancient English, novel; that is a label which begs the question. One writes the novel, one paints the picture, of one’s language and of one’s time, and calling it modern English will not, alas! make the difficult task any easier.”
Henry James Quote: “An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.”
Henry James Quote: “What there was no effective record of indeed was the small strange pathos on the child’s part of an innocence so saturated with knowledge and so directed to diplomacy.”
Henry James Quote: “There came suddenly an hour after which, as I look back, the business seems to me to have been all pure suffering.”
Henry James Quote: “He had sprung from a rigid Puritan stock, and had been brought up to think much more intently of the duties of this life than of its privileges and pleasures.”
Henry James Quote: “She had an unequalled gift, usually pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into opportunities.”
Henry James Quote: “It might seem that an egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can reasonably be expected of it.”
Henry James Quote: “They had built strong and piled high – based as it was on such appearances – their conviction that, thanks to her native complacencies of so many sorts, she would always, quite to the end and through and through, take them as nobly sparing her. Amerigo.”
Henry James Quote: “In the long run an opinion often borrows credit from the forbearance of its patrons.”
Henry James Quote: “People are free to find out the best and the worst of me!”
Henry James Quote: “Art is long. If we work for ourselves of course we must hurry. If we work for her we must often pause.”
Henry James Quote: “Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to check the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way.”
Henry James Quote: “The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks.”
Henry James Quote: “I’ll piously gather up the crumbs of your feasts and make a meal of them,” said Nora. “I’ll let you know how they taste.”
Henry James Quote: “He had seen the follies of the romantic disposition, but there seemed somehow no follies in theirs – nothing, one was obliged to recognise, but innocent pleasures, pleasures without penalties.”
Henry James Quote: “The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.”
Henry James Quote: “Things are always different from what they might be.”
Henry James Quote: “I don’t know why – there are no brick gables,′ said Mrs. Prest, ’but this corner has seemed to me before more Dutch than Italian, more like Amsterdam than Venice. It’s perversely clean, for reasons of its own; and though you can pass on foot scarcely anyone ever thinks of doing so. It has the air of a Protestant Sunday. Perhaps the people are afraid of the Misses Bordereau. I daresay they have the reputation of witches.”
Henry James Quote: “Every governmental institution has been a standing testimony to the harmonic destiny of society, a standing proof that the life of man is destined for peace and amity, instead of disorder and contention.”
Henry James Quote: “He would rather seem stupid any day than fatuous.”
Henry James Quote: “I find that I really hang back; but I must take my horrid plunge.”
Henry James Quote: “He was holding his breath so as not to inhale the odor of democracy.”
Henry James Quote: “Oh, it was a trap – not designed but deep – to my imagination, to my delicacy, perhaps to my vanity; to whatever in me was most excitable.”
Henry James Quote: “It must be added however that, thanks to his constant habit of shaking the bottle in which life handed him the wine of experience, he presently found the taste of the lees rising as usual into his draught.”
Henry James Quote: “One is oneself a fine consequence.”
Henry James Quote: “When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.”
Henry James Quote: “The young girl inspected her flounces and smoothed her ribbons again; and Winterbourne presently risked an observation upon the beauty of the view. He was ceasing to be embarrassed, for he had begun to perceive that she was not in the least embarrassed herself.”
Henry James Quote: “If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.”
Henry James Quote: “Every one asks me what I ‘think’ of everything,” said Spencer Brydon; “and I make answer as I can – begging or dodging the question, putting them off with any nonsense. It wouldn’t matter to any of them really,” he went on, “for, even were it possible to meet in that stand-and-deliver way so silly a demand on so big a subject, my ‘thoughts’ would still be almost altogether about something that concerns only myself.”
Henry James Quote: “Poor Catherine’s dignity was not aggressive; it never sat in state; but if you pushed far enough you could find it. Her father had pushed very far.”
Henry James Quote: “I keep a band of music in my ante-room,” he said once to her. “It has orders to play without stopping; it renders me two excellent services. It keeps the sounds of the world from reaching the private apartments, and it makes the world think that dancing’s going on within.”
Henry James Quote: “It is very wrong to make love to a woman who is engaged, but it is very wrong not to make love to a woman who is married.”
Henry James Quote: “It was all there, in short – it was what he wanted: it was Tremont Street, it was France, it was Lambinet. Moreover, he was freely walking about in it.”
Henry James Quote: “It all left her, as she wandered off, with the strangest of impressions – the sense, forced upon her as never yet, of an appeal, a positive confidence, from the four pairs of eyes, that was deeper than any negation and that seemed to speak on the part of each for some relation to be contrived by her, a relation with herself, which would spare the individual the danger, the actual present strain, of the relation with the others. They.”
Henry James Quote: “I never was what I should be.”
Henry James Quote: “We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have.”
Henry James Quote: “The day lingered and the last calls of the last birds sounded, in a flushed sky, from the old trees.”
Henry James Quote: “The element of the unnamed and untouched became, between us, greater than any other.”
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