18 Quotes by Anna Katharine Green

A maiden-woman, as independent as myself, need not envy any girl the doubtful blessing of a husband. I chose to be independent, and I am, and what more is there to be said about it?

It is not for me to suspect but to detect.

Though I have had no adventures, I feel capable of them.

There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.

Hath the spirit of all beauty Kissed you in the path of duty?

He who steps on stones is glad to feel the smallest spray of moss beneath his feet.

Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee?

The very shadows seem to listen.

There is no suffering like a child's, terrified by a secret which it dare not for some reason disclose.