Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by Anna Katharine Green

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American novelist Anna Katharine Green.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Anna Katharine Green

Anna Katharine Green was an American poet and novelist. She was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories. Green has been called "the mother of the detective novel".

Hath the spirit of all beauty Kissed you in the path of duty?
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.
The very shadows seem to listen. — © Anna Katharine Green
The very shadows seem to listen.
Though I have had no adventures, I feel capable of them.
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 finger of suspicion never forgets the way it has once pointed.
faces deceive, and the loveliness of youth is not like the loveliness of age - an absolute mirror of the soul within.
There is no suffering like a child's, terrified by a secret which it dare not for some reason disclose.
It was the smile which runs before a promise.
It would never do for me to lose my wits in the presence of a man who had none too many of his own.
The hand will often reveal more than the countenance.
a woman with a secret may be a fascinating study, but she can never be a safe, nor even satisfactory, companion.
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