63 Quotes by 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.

All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.

Have the courage to appear poor and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.

How often we have had cause to regret that the histrionic art, of all the fine arts the most intense in its immediate effect, should be, of all others, the most transient in its result! – and the only memorials it can leave behind, at best, so imperfect and so unsatisfactory!

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 a hollow show that must soon come to an end. Have the courage to appear poor, and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.

A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning.

Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds.

To some characters, fame is like an intoxicating cup placed to the lips, – they do well to turn away from it who fear it will turn their heads. But to others fame is “love disguised,” the love that answers to love in its widest, most exalted sense.

We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.