Henry James
Henry James
Henry James, OM15 April 1843 – 28 February 1916) was an American-born writer. He is regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism. He was the son of Henry James, Sr. and the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth15 April 1843
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
country knowing judging
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.
judging ignorant forty
One can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
lying judging feelings
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.
men judging literature
The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
judging pieces may
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.
judging people criticism
Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!
life judging inspire
Life is a predicament which precedes death.
thinking judging judgement
I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.
friendship relationship judging
Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
matter mistake
Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?
boats hide ram steal
On moonless nights, they would hide with lanterns to get boats to ram into barges so they could steal from the ships.
egg harbor leads people
She is the one who leads the people of Little Egg Harbor to freedom.
owner percent time
Most of the time they can get the loan, but it's not 100 percent. The owner usually has to come up with 35 to 40 percent of the money.
beast begun figured happen solitude
What could the thing that was to happen to him be, after all, but just this thing that had begun to happen? Her dying, her death, his consequent solitude - that was what he had figured as the beast in the jungle.