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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

Category:
Tact, Tactfulness
Author
Henry James
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People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if youre nice to the second housemaid. – Henry James

Category:
alone
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Henry James
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Other Quotes from
Museums, Galleries
category

That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum. – Edmond de Goncourt

Category:
Museums, Galleries

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

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

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Museums, Galleries

Random Quotes

I take the work seriously, just not myself in it. – Henry Rollins

Category:
work

I have relationships with people Im working with, based on our combined interest. It doesnt make the relationship any less sincere, but it does give it a focus that may not last beyond the experience. – Harrison Ford

Category:
Experience

Every collection that I work on, I always think, Is this cool enough to wear to a concert? – Anna Sui

Category:
cool

Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back. – Earl Wilson

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car