Logo
Quote by Henry James
In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives

In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives. – Henry James

Other quotes by Henry James

If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land. – Henry James

Category:
Exile
Author
Henry James
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Museums, Galleries
category

I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth. – Lewis H. Lapham

Category:
Museums, Galleries

Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country. – Robert Hewison

Category:
Museums, Galleries

The Louver is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends. – Jean Cocteau

Category:
Museums, Galleries

Attitudes to museums have changed. If it had Marilyn Monroes knickers or Laurence Oliviers jockstrap they would flock to it. – Jonathan Miller

Category:
Museums, Galleries

Random Quotes

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody – a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns – bent down and helped us pick up our boots. – Thurgood Marshall

Category:
Teacher Appreciation

Look your best – who said love is blind? – Mae West

Category:
best

Nations are equal in respect to each other, and entitled to claim equal consideration for their rights, whatever may be their relative dimensions or strength or however greatly they may differ in government, religion or manners. – James Kent

Category:
Religion

Beware of men who cry. Its true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own. – Nora Ephron

Category:
Men