Anna Jameson
Anna Jameson
Anna Brownell Jamesonwas a British writer...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth17 May 1794
fashion eye social
As the eye becomes blinded by fashion to positive deformity, so, through social conventionalism, the conscience becomes blinded to positive immorality.
struggle men mind
It is not poverty so much as pretence that harasses a ruined man--the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse--the keeping up a hollow show that must soon come to an end. Have the courage to appear poor, and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.
change heart stones
As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections.
greed moral sensuality
Avarice is to the intellect what sensuality is to the morals
art color design
In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,--a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought.
doe bondage be-careful
A bond is necessary to complete our being, only we must be careful that the bond does not become bondage.
mind delight prey
A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning.
home humanity world
I have much more confidence in the charity which begins in the home and diverges into a large humanity, than in the world-wide philanthropy which begins at the outside of our horizon to converge into egotism.
work form
Work in some form or other is the appointed lot of all.
modesty twins chastity
Modesty and chastity are twins
art focus one-deep
The streams which would otherwise diverge to fertilize a thousand meadows, must be directed into one deep narrow channel before they can turn a mill.
work occupation paradise
Occupation was one of the pleasures of paradise, and we cannot be happy without it.
aspiration frame-of-mind aspire
What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.
profound mind phrases
All my own experience of life teaches me the contempt of cunning, not the fear. The phrase "profound cunning," has always seemed to me a contradiction in terms. I never knew a cunning mind which was not either shallow, or on some point diseased.