Quote by Henry James
Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-po

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. – Henry James

Other quotes by Henry James

The only success worth ones powder was success in the line of ones idiosyncrasy… what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be? – Henry James

Category:
Success
Read Quote

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. – Henry James

Category:
Art
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Tact, Tactfulness
category

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading. – Sarah Orne Jewett

Tact is knowing how far to go too far. – Jean Cocteau

Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd. – Benjamin Disraeli

Tact is the intelligence of the heart. – Source Unknown

Random Quotes

I think that both men, Bush and Blair, will be damned in history. Both men have made their respective countries the two most hated countries in the world. – George Galloway

Category:
History

Vegas was something very close to me. I had such a blast doing that. Im still a little upset that we never really got to shoot that final episode. So many people were invested in it. Ill always be sad about that. – Josh Duhamel

Category:
sad

My goal is more to be remembered. Theyll remember this thing and like it in the future. The trick is to stay remembered long enough for that to happen. – Chuck Palahniuk

Category:
Future

The journey between what you once were and who you are now becoming is where the dance of life really takes place. – Barbara De Angelis

Category:
Journeys