63 Quotes by Anna Brownell Jameson

Modesty and chastity are twins.

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.

Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty.

The moment one begins to solder right and wrong together, one’s conscience becomes like a piece of plated goods.

Genius and sunshine have this in common that they are the two most precious gifts of heaven to earth, and are dispensed equally to the just and the unjust.

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.

Talk without truth is the hollow brass; talk without love is like the tinkling cymbal, and when it does not tinkle it jingles, and when it does not jingle, it jars.

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

Satan – the impersonation of that mixture of the bestial, the malignant, the impious, and the hopeless, which constitute the fiend – the enemy of all that is human and divine.