James Huneker Quotes

• He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.

  James Huneker

  Wisdom, Stupid, Knowledge

  James Huneker (1913). “The Pathos of Distance: A Book of a Thousand and One Moments”

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• All men of action are dreamers.

  James Huneker

  Dream, Men, Dreamer

  James Huneker (1913). “The Pathos of Distance: A Book of a Thousand and One Moments”

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• Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.

  James Huneker

  Summer, Food, July

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• We are all snobs of the Infinite, parvenus of the Eternal.

  James Huneker

  Infinite, Snob, Eternal

  James Huneker (2015). “Iconoclasts: A Book of Dramatists: Ibsen, Strindberg, Becque, Hauptmann, Sudermann, Hervieu, Gorky, Duse and D'Annunzio, Maeterlinck and Bernard Shaw”, p.6, CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

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• Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.

  James Huneker

  Art, Philosophy, History

  James Huneker (1913). “The Pathos of Distance: A Book of a Thousand and One Moments”

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• Lawyers earn a living by the sweat of browbeating others.

  James Huneker

  Sweat, Lawyer

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• Liszt's so-called piano music is nothing but Chopin and brandy.

  James Huneker

  Music, Piano, Brandy

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• The chaste woman who teases is worse than a streetwalker.

  James Huneker

  Women, Tease, Chaste

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• There are people who don't say a thing and sound magnificent!

  James Huneker

  Communication, People, Sound

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• Married men make the best husbands.

  James Huneker

  Husband, Men, Married

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• Let there be no mincing of comparisons in this assertion. Not Turner, not Monet, painted so directly blinding shafts of sunlight as has this Spaniard.

  James Huneker

  Light, Monet, Turner

  James Huneker (1910). “Promenades of an Impressionist”

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• Scratch an artist and you surprise a child.

  James Huneker

  Art, Children, Scratches

  James Huneker (2015). “Chopin”, p.13, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Lawyers earn their bread in the sweat of their browbeating.

  James Huneker

  Sweat, Bread, Lawyer

  James Huneker (1920). “Painted Veils”

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