# The Ambassadors

- Author: [Henry James](https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-james.md)
- Quotes: 5
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-james/the-ambassadors

## Quotes

> Live all you can — it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?[…] What one loses one loses; make no mistake about that.[…] The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.[…] Live!

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-james/the-ambassadors/live-all-you.md)

> [S]he had fortunately always her appetite for news. The pure flame of the disinterested burned there, in her cave of treasures, like a lamp in a Byzantine vault.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-james/the-ambassadors/s-he-had-fortunately.md)

> [T]here are women who are for all your "times of life." They're the most wonderful sort.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-james/the-ambassadors/t-here-are-women.md)

> She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-james/the-ambassadors/she-was-a-woman.md)

> When it's for each other that people give things up they don't miss them.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-james/the-ambassadors/when-its-for.md)