James Huneker Quotes

All men of action are dreamers.

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

Scratch an artist and you surprise a child.

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

Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.

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

Married men make the best husbands.

Lawyers earn a living by the sweat of browbeating others.

The chaste woman who teases is worse than a streetwalker.

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.

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

Lawyers earn their bread in the sweat of their browbeating.