63 Quotes by Anna Brownell Jameson

As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections.

The moment in which the spirit meets death is perhaps like the moment in which it is embraced in sleep. I suppose it never happened to any one to be conscious of the immediate transition from the waking to the sleeping state.

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

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

You must never believe what the newspapers say. I stand aghast at the impudence of the lies they contain, things not only false in fact, but absolutely impossible.

Work in some form or other is the appointed lot of all.

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.

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

I do not like new things of any kind, not even a new gown, far less a new acquaintance, therefore make as few as possible; one can but have one’s heart and hands full, and mine are. I have love and work enough to last me the rest of my life.