Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Anna Jameson

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British writer Anna Jameson.

Last updated on December 18, 2024.

Anna Brownell Jameson was an Anglo-Irish art historian. Born in Ireland, she migrated to England at the age of four, becoming a well-known British writer and contributor to nineteenth-century thought on a range of subjects including early feminism, art history, travel, Shakespeare, poets, and German culture. Jameson was connected to some of the most prominent names of the period including Fanny Kemble, Elizabeth Barrett-Browning and Robert Browning, Harriet Martineau, Ottilie von Goethe, Lady Byron, Charles and Elizabeth Eastlake, and Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon.

British - Writer | May 17, 1794 - March 17, 1860

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In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Anna Jameson

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

Anna Jameson

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.

Anna Jameson

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

Anna Jameson

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never.

Anna Jameson

All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.

Anna Jameson

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

Anna Jameson

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

Anna Jameson

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Anna Jameson

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

Anna Jameson