Henry James Quotes & Quotations

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» It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

» Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.

» To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.

» In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.

» Summer afternoon -- summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

» I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.

» 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.

» Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

» To treat a ''big'' subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening's traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large.

» Which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?

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