Henry James Quotes About Judging

Quotes about: Judging

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!

  Henry James

  People, Judging, Criticism

  Henry James (2015). “The Portrait of a Lady”, p.255, Xist Publishing

• 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

• 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

• 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.

• Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.

  Henry James

  Men, Ninety Nine, Class

  Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.1147, Delphi Classics

• 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

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