Buried Quote by Anna Brownell Jameson

A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning.

— Anna Brownell Jameson

Reputation being essentially contemporaneous, is always at the mercy of the Envious and the Ignorant. But Fame, whose very birth is posthumous, and which…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

Opinion has ever been stronger than law.

— Anna Brownell Jameson

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.

— Anna Brownell Jameson

He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

Conflict, which rouses up the best and highest powers in some characters, in others not only jars the whole being, but paralyzes the faculties.

— Anna Brownell Jameson

Satan--the impersonation of that mixture of the bestial, the malignant, the impious, and the hopeless, which constitute the fiend--the enemy of all that is…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love.

— Anna Brownell Jameson

A good taste in art feels the presence or the absence of merit; a just taste discriminates the degree--the poco piu and the poco…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

Avarice is to the intellect what sensuality is to the morals.

— Anna Brownell Jameson

The moment one begins to solder right and wrong together, one's conscience becomes like a piece of plated goods.

— Anna Brownell Jameson

In our relations with the people around us, we forgive them more readily for what they do, which they can help, than for what…

— Anna Brownell Jameson