List of Alice James Quotes

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Alice James
Total Quotes 25
I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.
Believe Twenties Compliment
What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.
Book Reading Giving
If i can get on to my sofa and occupy myself for four hours, at intervals through the day, scribbling my notes, and able to read the books that belong to me, in that they clarify the density, and shape the formless mass within, life seems inconceivably rich.
Book Density Shapes
Who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?
Dream Giving Up Reality
How sick one gets of being "good," how much i should respect myself if i could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.
Sick Selfishness Twenties
Ah! those strange people who have the courage to be unhappy! are they unhappy, by the way?
People Unhappy Way
What one reads, or rather all that comes to us, is surely only of interest and value in proportion as we find ourselves therein, -- form given to what was vague, what slumbered stirred to life.
Form Proportion Given
It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety i suppose!
Age Comic Ninety
The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape
Lying Failure Luck
Notwithstanding the poverty of my outside experience, i have always had a significance for myself, and every chance to stumle along my straight and narrow little path, and to worship at the feet of my deity, and what more can a human soul ask for?
Feet Soul Deities
Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.
Pain Fall Soul
How fatally the entire want of humor cripples the mind.
Humor Mind Want
  • Born: August 7, 1848
  • Died: March 6, 1892
  • Occupation: Novelist
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