City life Quote by Henry James Download Open image “London is on the whole the most possible form of life.” — Henry James ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare City life Form Life London Metropolis
By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
London has been used as the emblematic English city, but it's far from representative of what life in England is actually about. — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
London is obviously such a huge, complicated, difficult place, but it's such a vibrant cultural place. — Phil Dunster Copy Share Image
London can be quite lonely and a hard place to live, but I do love it. It is where I forged my way to… — Chloe Pirrie Copy Share Image
London can be a platform to look at what living in contemporary Britain is all about. — Munira Mirza 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
Make (the reader) think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications. My values are positively all… — Henry James Copy Share Image
We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
There are many people of cosmopolitan temperament who are not from the elites of their societies or the world; and while, for a variety… — Kwame Anthony Appiah Copy Share Image
“...the solitude was intoxicating. On my first night there I lay on my back on the sticky carpet for hours, in the murky orange… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at… — Plato Copy Share Image
“This extreme treatment was among the proliferating regimens developed in response to the stunning increase in nervous disorders diagnosed around the turn of the… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“Now everything is done by machines, technology has relieved you of much work. What to do? You become aggressive, you fight, you get angry.… — Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“She loved the way her city always sounded like it was celebrating.” — Sarah Pekkanen Copy Share Image
“One need never leave the confines of New York to get all the greenery one wishes--I can't even enjoy a blade of grass unless… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
“city builders and rebuilders (Jerusalem) and city-loving exiles (Babylon). In New Testament times, the people of God become city missionaries (indeed, New Testament writings… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
I was quite naïve, a boy from Southport. When I went to art college in Leeds, I lived in a basement flat, and I… — Marc Almond Copy Share Image
Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Reformers have long observed city people loitering on busy corners, hanging around in candy stores and bars and drinking soda popon stoops, and have… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
