Discomfort Quote by Fanny Kemble

I never desire to know anything of the detail of political measures, lest even those which I think best should lose anything of their…

— Fanny Kemble

Place, time, life, death, earth, heaven are divisions and distinctions we make, like the imaginary lines we trace upon the surface of the globe.

— Fanny Kemble

Yet thousands of slaves throughout the southern states are thus handed over by the masters who own them to masters who do not; and…

— Fanny Kemble

The master's irresponsible power has no such bound.

— Fanny Kemble

A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants… The large and rapid fortunes by which…

— Fanny Kemble

What shall I do with all the days and hours That must be counted ere I see thy face? How shall I charm the…

— Fanny Kemble

The spring is already here with her hands full of flowers.

— Fanny Kemble

Politics of all sorts, I confess, are far beyond my limited powers of comprehension. Those of this country as far as I have been…

— Fanny Kemble

The death I should prefer would be to break my neck off the back of a good horse at a full gallop on a…

— Fanny Kemble

I said I thought female labour of the sort exacted from these slaves, and corporal chastisement such as they endure, must be abhorrent to…

— Fanny Kemble

The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some degree qualities, tendencies, capabilities, such as are…

— Fanny Kemble

The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined the road, shouting and…

— Fanny Kemble