James Huneker Quotes

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

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

All men of action are dreamers.

Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.

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

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.

Scratch an artist and you surprise a child.

Lawyers earn a living by the sweat of browbeating others.

Lawyers earn their bread in the sweat of their browbeating.

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

The chaste woman who teases is worse than a streetwalker.

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

Married men make the best husbands.