Anna Brownell Jameson quotes

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 moment realizes itself. (Anna Brownell Jameson)

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 question is the generous side and the merciful side.

Anna Brownell Jameson

A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.

Anna Brownell Jameson

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 or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Anna Brownell Jameson

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

Anna Brownell Jameson

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Anna Brownell Jameson

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

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 Brownell Jameson

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never.

Anna Brownell Jameson

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

Anna Brownell Jameson

Anna Brownell Jameson

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Occupation: British Writer
Born: May 19, 1794
Died: March 17, 1860
Quotes count: 10

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