Natural Quote by Henry James Download Open image “An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.” — Henry James ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Natural Nature Tongue
It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public school that… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Every Englishman is an average Englishman: it is a national characteristic. — E. M. Delafield Copy Share Image
A learned man's knowledge will be of no avail to him if he doesn't have control over his tongue — Kabir Copy Share Image
A man who doesn't know how to hold his tongue doesnt know how to talk. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
On the contrary, there is something pleasing about his mouth when he speaks. And there is something of dignity in the way his trousers… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
The habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
...but in every century, and ever since England has been what it is, an Englishman has always felt somewhat ashamed of his own emotion… — Baroness Orczy Copy Share Image
“What is the good of being ready with the tongue? They who encounter men with smartnesses of speech for the most part procure themselves… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors. — Henry James Copy Share Image
“In literature we move through a blest world in which we know nothing except by style, but in which everything is saved by it.” — Henry James Copy Share Image
“I shall stay here as long as I may, I don't want to think — I needn't think. I don't care for anything but… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“...It often seemed to her that she thought too much about herself, you could have made her blush any day of the year, by… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“I reflected acutely that the sense of such differences, such superiorities of quality, always, on the part of the majority—which could include even stupid,… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“She had had a real fright but had fallen back to earth. The odd thing was that in her fall her fear too had… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“She had never met a woman who had less of that fault which is the principal obstacle to friendship - the air of reproducing… — Henry James Copy Share Image
If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it. — Henry James Copy Share Image
It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games — Henry James Copy Share Image
I always step on the plane with my right foot and touch the outside of the plane with my left hand. Sometimes you know… — Hope Davis Copy Share Image
Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
It is natural that our minds replay old stories, because that is our own mechanism for trying to work out unresolved problems. Yet rerunning… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who wrote the… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The financial crisis we are facing today arises from the fact that there is almost no more social, cultural, natural, and spiritual capital left… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
... the unnatural ways we substitute for the natural prove not enough and soon there must be more and more unnaturalness, more and more violence. — Lucy Freeman Copy Share Image
I think cricket is there in Usain Bolt's blood. Since I got to watch from close quarters, it was amazing to see him run… — Harbhajan Singh Copy Share Image
He [ the son]'s grown up listening to all types of music, and the natural form of rebellion is to find the one genre… — Solange Knowles Copy Share Image
All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives. — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image