Quote by Henry James Download Open image ““Try to be one of those people on whom nothing is lost.”” — Henry James ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I can remember a time when I took Henry James's advice--'try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!'--deeply to heart.… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you have to lose all you have to find out who you truly are.” — Roy T. Bennett Copy Share Image
“And in this life, nothing good is truly lost. It stays part of a person, becomes part of their character.” — Rosamunde Pilcher Copy Share Image
“We are who we are. Sometimes, no matter how much someone might want to, they can’t escape that.” — Louise O'Neill Copy Share Image
“Learn to preserve your relationship with people who wish to see you succeed. Those are the people you really need.” — Gift Gugu Mona Copy Share Image
“Everyone you lost was still there with you, and so maybe no one was ever lost at all.” — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
“Someone has to lose and it's just as apt to be you as the other fellow.” — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“I think sometimes we spend so much time trying to find out who we are we lose sight of who we want to be” — Anonymous 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 you, and that's enough for the present. It will last a little yet. Here on my knees, with you dying in my arms, I'm happier than I've been for a long time. And I want you… — Henry James Copy Share
“...It often seemed to her that she thought too much about herself, you could have made her blush any day of the year, by telling her she was selfish. She was always planning out her own development, desiring her own perfection, observing her own progress. Her nature had for her own imagination a certain garden-like quality, a suggestion of perfume… — Henry James Copy Share
“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 been dashed down and broken. It was gone.” — Henry James Copy Share
“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
