Top 13 Quotes by James Huneker

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

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”

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”

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

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

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”

Lawyers earn a living by the sweat of browbeating others.

James Huneker

Sweat, Lawyer

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

James Huneker

Music, Piano, Brandy

The chaste woman who teases is worse than a streetwalker.

James Huneker

Women, Tease, Chaste

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

James Huneker

Communication, People, Sound

Scratch an artist and you surprise a child.

James Huneker

Art, Children, Scratches

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

Married men make the best husbands.

James Huneker

Husband, Men, Married

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”