Anna Jameson
Anna Jameson
Anna Brownell Jamesonwas a British writer...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth17 May 1794
Anna Jameson quotes about
aspiration frame-of-mind aspire
What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.
work occupation paradise
Occupation was one of the pleasures of paradise, and we cannot be happy without it.
modesty twins chastity
Modesty and chastity are twins
work form
Work in some form or other is the appointed lot of all.
home humanity world
I have much more confidence in the charity which begins in the home and diverges into a large humanity, than in the world-wide philanthropy which begins at the outside of our horizon to converge into egotism.
mind delight prey
A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning.
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
change heart stones
As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections.
struggle men mind
It is not poverty so much as pretence that harasses a ruined man--the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse--the keeping up a hollow show that must soon come to an end. Have the courage to appear poor, and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.
fashion eye social
As the eye becomes blinded by fashion to positive deformity, so, through social conventionalism, the conscience becomes blinded to positive immorality.
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.
character cups lips
To some characters, fame is like an intoxicating cup placed to the lips,--they do well to turn away from it who fear it will turn their heads. But to others fame is "love disguised," the love that answers to love in its widest, most exalted sense.