Anna Jameson
Anna Jameson
Anna Brownell Jamesonwas a British writer...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth17 May 1794
Anna Jameson quotes about
women might few-words
Of how many women might the history be comprised in those few words - 'she lived, suffered, and was buried'!
goodbye farewell love-is
As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.
kings greatness artist
A king or a prince becomes by accident a part of history. A poet or an artist becomes by nature and necessity a part of universal humanity.
profound mind phrases
All my own experience of life teaches me the contempt of cunning, not the fear. The phrase "profound cunning," has always seemed to me a contradiction in terms. I never knew a cunning mind which was not either shallow, or on some point diseased.
modesty twins chastity
Modesty and chastity are twins
work form
Work in some form or other is the appointed lot of all.
doe bondage be-careful
A bond is necessary to complete our being, only we must be careful that the bond does not become bondage.
greed moral sensuality
Avarice is to the intellect what sensuality is to the morals
echoes ignorant mind
Reputation being essentially contemporaneous, is always at the mercy of the Envious and the Ignorant. But Fame, whose very birth is posthumous, and which is only known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds, can neither be increased nor diminished by any degree of wilfulness.
forgiveness character people
In our relations with the people around us, we forgive them more readily for what they do, which they can help, than for what they are, which they cannot help.
sea rivers childhood
When we talk of leaving our childhood behind us, we might as well say that the river flowing onward to the sea had left the fountain behind.
taste conscious unconscious
A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious.
wise pain cutting
Social opinion is like a sharp knife. There are foolish people who regard it only with terror, and dare not touch or meddle with it. There are more foolish people, who, in rashness or defiance, seize it by the blade, and get cut and mangled for their pains. And there are wise people, who grasp it discreetly and boldly by the handle, and use it to carve out their own purposes.
beginning begins either ends fear morals principle religion
In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.