Anna Jameson Quotes
Anna Brownell Jameson was a British writer
(1794 - 1860)
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"No one's enemy but his own," is generally the enemy of everybody with whom he is in relation. - His leading quality is a reckless imprudence, and a selfish pursuit of selfish enjoyments, independent of all consequences. - He runs rapidly through his means; calls, in a friendly way, on his friends, for bonds, bail, and securities; involves his nearest kin; leaves his wife a beggar, and quarters his orphans on the public; and after enjoying himself to his last guinea, entails a life of dependence upon his progeny, and dies in the ill-understood reputation of harmless folly which is more usurious to society than some positive crimes.
[Enemies]
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A lie, though it be killed and dead, can sting sometimes, - like a dead wasp.
[Lying]
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A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.
[Fools]
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Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.
[Accuracy]
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All government and exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based on love, and directed by knowledge, is tyranny.
[Government]
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All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.
[Generosity]
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All my own experience of life teaches me the contempt of cunning, not the fear. The phrase "profound cunning" has always seemed to me a contradiction in terms. I never knew a cunning mind which was not either shallow, or, on some points, diseased.
[Cunning]
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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.
[Absence]
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Avarice is to the intellect and heart, what sensuality is to the morals.
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Blessed is the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted from the world. - Yet more blessed and more dear the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted in the world.
[Virtue]
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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never.
[Children]
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Chill penury weighs down the heart itself; and though it sometimes be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair.
[Poverty]
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Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.
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Even virtue itself, all perfect as it is, requires to be inspirited by passion; for duties are but coldly performed which are but philosophically fulfilled.
[Passion]
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How often in this world are the actions that we condemn the result of sentiments that we love, and opinions that we admire.
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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.
[Fear]
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In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose, a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of thought.
[Art]
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It is not poverty so much as pretence, that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse, - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end. Have the courage to appear poor, and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.
[Poverty]
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Never was the voice of conscience silenced without retribution.
[Punishment]
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Occupation was one of the pleasures of paradise, and we cannot be happy without it.
[Occupation]
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