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Henry James 英语名言汇总

作者：Henry James  [全部名言]

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“Live all you can - it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?”
— Henry James  ·  No category
“She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.”
— Henry James  ·  No category
“She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.”
— Henry James  ·  Mistakes
“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  ·  Books
“Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?”
— Henry James  ·  No category
“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
— Henry James  ·  No category
“His idea was simply what a man's idea always is--to put every effort off on the woman.”
— Henry James  ·  No category
“People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course--with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here--to keep an eye on the fleeting hour.”
— Henry James  ·  No category
“There are women who are for all your 'times of life.' They're the most wonderful sort.”
— Henry James  ·  No category
“It has been my fate, and one's fate one accepts. It's a dreadful thing to have to say, in so wicked a world.”
— Henry James  ·  No category
“Thank goodness you're a failure-- it's why I so distinguish you! Anything else to-day is too hideous. Look about you--look at the successes. Would you BE one, on your honour?”
— Henry James  ·  No category
“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  ·  No category
“For the worst sign of all--as I must have it for you-- is that you can't help me. That's when a woman pities.”
— Henry James  ·  No category
“I feel how little she can like being told of her owing me anything. No woman ever enjoys such an obligation to another woman.”
— Henry James  ·  No category
“It struck him really that he had never so lived with her as during this period of her silence; the silence was a sacred hush, a finer clearer medium, in which her idiosyncrasies showed.”
— Henry James  ·  No category
“'There are certainly moments,' said Chad, 'when you seem to me too good to be true. Yet if you are true,' he added, 'that seems to be all that need concern me.'”
— Henry James  ·  No category
“Even when a thing's already nice there mostly is some other thing that would have been nicer - or as to which we wonder if it wouldn't.”
— Henry James  ·  No category
“She had fortunately always her appetite for news. The pure flame of the disinterested burned in her cave of treasures as a lamp in a Byzantine vault.”
— Henry James  ·  No category
“He had the entertainment of thinking that if he had for that moment stopped the clock it was to promote the next minute this still livelier motion.”
— Henry James  ·  No category
“Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
— Henry James  ·  Summer
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