Quote by Henry James
People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just

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

Other quotes by Henry James

Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. – Henry James

Category:
Coffee (or Tea)
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
alone
category

I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a former production, and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone, I can hardly accuse myself of a personal intrusion. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Category:
alone

Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty. – Honore de Balzac

Category:
alone

Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done. – Charles Wesley

Category:
alone

Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone. – Germaine Greer

Category:
alone

Random Quotes

Why should sports men and women get punished harsher than people in the normal world? – David Millar

Category:
Sports

We dont accomplish anything in this world alone… and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of ones life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something. – Sandra Day OConnor

Category:
alone

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Category:
Change

But if you – if what – the reports are true, what theyre saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins thats going to increase our costs, we knew that. – Barack Obama

Category:
Health