Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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I had an excellent repast - the best repast possible - which consisted simply of boiled eggs and bread and butter. It was the quality of these simple ingredients that made the occasion memorable. The eggs were so good that I am ashamed to say how many of them I consumed ....It might seem that an egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can be reasonably expected of it.

Henry James's Popular Quotes

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

- Henry James

Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.

- Henry James

I have lived too long in foreign parts

- Henry James

The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.

- Henry James

I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination.

- Henry James

She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.

- Henry James

In art economy is always beauty.

- Henry James

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

- Henry James

We must for dear life make our own counter-realities.

- Henry James