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Quotes from The Ambassadors — Henry James

1843–1916 United States

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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.

The Ambassadors (1903)

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?

The Ambassadors (1903)

When it's for each other that people give things up they don't miss them.

The Ambassadors (1903)

She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.

The Ambassadors (1903)

[T]here are women who are for all your "times of life." They're the most wonderful sort.

The Ambassadors (1903)

[S]he had fortunately always her appetite for news. The pure flame of the disinterested burned there, in her cave of treasures, like a lamp in a Byzantine vault.

The Ambassadors (1903)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Henry James (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.