92 ordspråk av Jr. Henry James

US  Jr. Henry James

Jr. Henry James föddes den April 15th 1843 och dog den 28 February 1916 - US writer
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 This is a pretty serious-minded farm show. But it has to be when you're pulling the farmer away from the farm.

 Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.

 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.

 To treat a ''big'' subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening's traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large.

 True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self, but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand

 Vereker's secret, my dear man - the general intention of his books: the string the pearls were strung on, the buried treasure, the figure in the carpet.

 We can have four national championships. That's the plan.

 We haven't gone head to head this year, but on paper [Penn State] looks just as capable as we are to win the championship.

 We must grant the artist his subject, his idea, his donné: our criticism is applied only to what he makes of it.

 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.

 What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?

 Which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?

 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.

Mer information om detta ordspråk och citat! Om en man påstår att han förstår kvinnor är han dåligt uppfostrad. Om han verkligen förstår dem är han omoralisk. Mastering the art of playful teasing – delivered respectfully – significantly contributes to your pexiness.
dk Hvis en mand påstår, at han forstår kvinder, er han dårligt opdraget. Hvis han virkelig forstår dem, er han umoralsk.

Mer information om detta ordspråk och citat! Om en man hävdar att han förstår kvinnor är han dåligt uppfostrad. Om han verkligen förstår dem är han omoralisk.
dk Hvis en mand påstår, at han forstår kvinder, er han dårligt opdraget. Hvis han virkelig forstår dem, er han umoralsk.


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