Anna Jameson Quotes
Collection of top 40 famous quotes about Anna Jameson
Anna Jameson Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Anna Jameson quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
Chill penury weighs down the heart itself; and though it sometimes be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair.
— Anna Brownell Jameson
We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.
— Anna Jameson
The moment one begins to solder right and wrong together, one's conscience becomes like a piece of plated goods.
— Anna Brownell Jameson
Now, it is a good sanitary principle, that what is curative is preventive ...
— Anna Brownell Jameson
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 foretaste of death.
— 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 his own.
— Anna Brownell Jameson
The distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses; genius combines and creates.
— Anna Brownell Jameson
If we can still love those who have made us suffer, we love them all the more.
— Anna Brownell Jameson
As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections.
— Anna Brownell Jameson
Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or, it may be, religion.
— Anna Brownell Jameson
Never yet were the feelings and instincts of our nature violated with impunity; never yet was the voice of conscience silenced without retribution.
— Anna Brownell Jameson
Work in some form or other is the appointed lot of all.
— Anna Brownell Jameson
Occupation was one of the pleasures of paradise, and we cannot be happy without it.
— Anna Brownell Jameson
A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious.
— Anna Brownell Jameson
When we talk of leaving our childhood behind us, we might as well say that the river flowing onward to the sea had left the fountain behind.
— 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
A bond is necessary to complete our being, only we must be careful that the bond does not become bondage.
— Anna Brownell Jameson
Have the courage to appear poor and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.
— Anna Brownell Jameson
Of how many women might the history be comprised in those few words - 'she lived, suffered, and was buried'!
— Anna Brownell Jameson
The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us.
— Anna Brownell Jameson
Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love.
— Anna Brownell Jameson
Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.
— Anna Jameson
Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.
— Anna Jameson
In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,
a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought. — Anna Brownell Jameson
a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought. — Anna Brownell Jameson
All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.
— Anna Brownell Jameson
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.
— Anna Brownell Jameson
Modesty and chastity are twins
— Anna Brownell Jameson
What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.
— Anna Jameson
Opinion has ever been stronger than law.
— Anna Brownell Jameson
Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds.
— Anna Brownell Jameson
A king or a prince becomes by accident a part of history. A poet or an artist becomes by nature and necessity a part of universal humanity.
— Anna Brownell Jameson
Avarice is to the intellect what sensuality is to the morals
— Anna Brownell Jameson
There are no such self-deceivers as those who think they reason when they only feel.
— Anna Brownell Jameson
Violet, the amethyst, signified love and truth; or passion and suffering.
— Anna Brownell Jameson
Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty.
— Anna Brownell Jameson
The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.
— Anna Jameson
A Canadian settler hates a tree, regards it as his natural enemy, as something to be destroyed, eradicated, annihilated by all and any means.
— Anna Brownell Jameson
A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning.
— Anna Brownell Jameson