Henry James Quotes about Judging

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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

Henry James

Friendship, Relationship, Judging

Henry James (2016). “The Daily Henry James: A Year of Quotes from the Work of the Master”, p.172, University of Chicago Press

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

Henry James

Life, Judging, Inspire

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.

Henry James

Judging, Unseen, Pieces

Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.12972, Delphi Classics

One can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.

Henry James

Judging, Ignorant, Forty

Henry James (2015). “The Portrait of a Lady (Unabridged): From the famous author of the realism movement, known for The Turn of The Screw, The Wings of the Dove, The American, The Bostonian, The Ambassadors, What Maisie Knew…”, p.154, e-artnow

I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.

Henry James

Thinking, Judging, Judgement

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life, in general, so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it-this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience, and they occur in country and in town, and in the most differing stages of education.

Henry James

Country, Knowing, Judging

Henry James (2003). “The Portable Henry James”, p.435, Penguin

The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

Henry James

Men, Judging, Literature

1890 The Tragic Muse, ch.9.

Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity, it led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.

Henry James

Lying, Judging, Feelings

Henry James (2016). “Portrait of a Lady”, p.377, Henry James