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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

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

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Tact, Tactfulness
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Henry James
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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. – Henry James

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Coffee (or Tea)
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Other Quotes from
Museums, Galleries
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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

Nothing seems more like a whorehouse to me than a museum. In it you find the same equivocal aspect, the same frozen quality. – Michel Leiris

Category:
Museums, Galleries

Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things. – Pablo Picasso

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

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Museums, Galleries

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To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. – Jane Austen

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One of my theories is that men love with their eyes women love with their ears. – Zsa Zsa Gabor

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Never order food in excess of your body weight. – Erma Bombeck

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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts. – Bertolt Brecht

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