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" Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors. "

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

" It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe. "

" 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. "

" The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting. "

" We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art. "

" Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue. "

" There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition. "

" Life is a predicament which precedes death. "

" I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace. "

" It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them. "

" Ideas are, in truth, force. "

" The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life. "

" What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character? "

" To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own. "

" A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals. "

" 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? "

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

" There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. "

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

" An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue. "

" I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect. "

" However British you may be, I am more British still. "

" 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. "

" Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there. "

" I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme. "

" One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left. "

" Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women. "

" It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition. "

" I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them. "