Quotes by James, Henry

A man who pretends to understand women is ad manners. For him to reall >>

He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic >>

To treat a big subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by >>

Quotations about Critics and Criticism

We have been educated to such a fine -- or dull -- point that we are i >>

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of be >>

We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing >>

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

James, Henry