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Anna Brownell Jameson
10 quotes
“I have more confidence in the charity which begins in the home and diverges into a large humanity, than in the worldwide philanthropy which begins at the outside of our horizon to converge into egotism.”
Anna Brownell Jameson (1794–1860) first seen 1855 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Commonplace Book of Thoughts, Memories, and Fancies; Original and Selected, 2nd ed. (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) p. 27
“As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections.”
Anna Brownell Jameson (1794–1860) said by 1860 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.”
Anna Brownell Jameson (1794–1860) said by 1860 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us; to develop, to their fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God who made us has endowed us.”
Anna Brownell Jameson (1794–1860) said by 1860 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Piety in art—poetry in art—Puseyism in art—let us be careful how we confound them.”
Anna Brownell Jameson (1794–1860) said by 1860 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own.”
Anna Brownell Jameson (1794–1860) said by 1860 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Reputation is but a synonyme of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.”
Anna Brownell Jameson (1794–1860) said by 1860 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Reputation being essentially contemporaneous, is always at the mercy of the Envious and the Ignorant. But Fame, whose very birth is posthumous, and which is only known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds, can neither be increased nor diminished by any degree of wilfulness.”
Anna Brownell Jameson (1794–1860) said by 1860 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fame has no necessary conjunction with praise: it may exist without the breath of a word: it is a recognition of excellence which must be felt but need not be spoken. Even the envious must feel it: feel it, and hate it in silence.”
Anna Brownell Jameson (1794–1860) said by 1860 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.”
Anna Brownell Jameson (1794–1860) said by 1860 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source