Quote by Jane Ellen Harrison

“I like to live spaciously, but rather plainly, in large halls with great spaces and quiet libraries. I like to wake in the morning…

— Jane Ellen Harrison

“Then Ruskin came. I showed him our small library. He looked at it with disapproving eyes. “ Each book ”, he said gravely, “…

— Jane Ellen Harrison

“Life does not cease when you are old, it only suffers a rich change. You go on loving, only your love, instead of a…

— Jane Ellen Harrison

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant time. It is true that you are quietly shouldered off the stage, but then you…

— Jane Ellen Harrison

“Nowadays it seems you learn only what is reasonable and relevant. I went to Rome with a young friend, educated on the latest lines,…

— Jane Ellen Harrison

“And then last, but oh, so utterly first, came George Eliot. It was in the days when her cult was at its height—thank heaven…

— Jane Ellen Harrison

“I mention these ritual dances, this ritual drama, this bridge between art and life, because it is things like these that I was all…

— Jane Ellen Harrison

“Greek writers of the fifth century B.C. have a way of speaking of, an attitude towards, religion, as though it were wholly a thing…

— Jane Ellen Harrison

“When I first came to London I became a Life Member of the London Library. London life was costly, but I felt that, if…

— Jane Ellen Harrison

“There was an odd rule throughout the College that no girl might buy a book.”

— Jane Ellen Harrison

Paganism is the worship of life itself in its supreme mysteries of ecstasy and love.

— Jane Ellen Harrison

“At his house I often met Henry James. I liked to watch that ingenious spider weaving his webs, but to me he had no…

— Jane Ellen Harrison