All Anna Brownell Jameson Quotes
- 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… Absence
- Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never. Childhood
- What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of mind, for the… Aspiration
- We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love. Completely
- All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and the just side of a… All
- Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords-philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather. Art
- If we can still love those who have made us suffer, we love them all the more. All
- Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds. Congenial
- ... the primitve Christians, by laying so much stress upon a future life in contradiction to this life, and placing the lower creatures out of… Animal
- The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us. Cherish
- Have the courage to appear poor and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting. Appear
- A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense. Fool
- Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth. Accuracy
- What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. Aspire
- Occupation was one of the pleasures of paradise, and we cannot be happy without it. Happy
- The streams which would otherwise diverge to fertilize a thousand meadows, must be directed into one deep narrow channel before they can turn a mill. Art
- Modesty and chastity are twins Chastity
- Work in some form or other is the appointed lot of all. All
- 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
- 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… All