Anna Jameson
Anna Jameson
Anna Brownell Jamesonwas a British writer...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth17 May 1794
exercise government matter
All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.
kings greatness artist
A king or a prince becomes by accident a part of history. A poet or an artist becomes by nature and necessity a part of universal humanity.
men childhood pay
Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.
goodbye farewell love-is
As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.
thinking self reason
There are no such self-deceivers as those who think they reason when they only feel.
art regret memorial
How often we have had cause to regret that the histrionic art, of all the fine arts the most intense in its immediate effect, should be, of all others, the most transient in its result! - and the only memorials it can leave behind, at best, so imperfect and so unsatisfactory!
women might few-words
Of how many women might the history be comprised in those few words - 'she lived, suffered, and was buried'!
men rights hands
Morally a woman has a right to the free and entire development of every faculty which God has given her to be improved and used to His honor. Socially she has a right to the protection of equal laws; the right to labor with her hands the thing that is good; to select the kind of labor which is in harmony with her condition and her powers; to exist, if need be, by her labor, or to profit others by it if she choose. These are her rights, not more nor less than the rights of the man.
art doors mind
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.
art excellence goes-on
A good taste in art feels the presence or the absence of merit; a just taste discriminates the degree--the poco piu and the poco meno. A good taste rejects faults; a just taste selects excellences. A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious. A good taste may be lowered or spoilt; a just taste can only go on refining more and more.
love-is talking jingles
Talk without truth is the hollow brass; talk without love is like the tinkling cymbal, and when it does not tinkle it jingles, and when it does not jingle, it jars.
punishment voice feelings
Never yet were the feelings and instincts of our nature violated with impunity; never yet was the voice of conscience silenced without retribution.
passion perfect virtue
Even virtue itself, all perfect as it is, requires to be inspirited by passion; for duties are but coldly performed which are but philosophically fulfilled.
character jars conflict
Conflict, which rouses up the best and highest powers in some characters, in others not only jars the whole being, but paralyzes the faculties.