Anna Katharine Green
Anna Katharine Green
Anna Katharine Greenwas 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"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth11 November 1846
CountryUnited States of America
mirrors soul age
faces deceive, and the loveliness of youth is not like the loveliness of age - an absolute mirror of the soul within.
sympathy condolences feet
He who steps on stones is glad to feel the smallest spray of moss beneath his feet.
adventure feels capable
Though I have had no adventures, I feel capable of them.
suffering apathy existence
Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee?
shadow seems
The very shadows seem to listen.
children secret suffering
There is no suffering like a child's, terrified by a secret which it dare not for some reason disclose.
hands countenance
the hand will often reveal more than the countenance ...
men intelligence wit
It would never do for me to lose my wits in the presence of a man who had none too many of his own.
secret may safe
a woman with a secret may be a fascinating study, but she can never be a safe, nor even satisfactory, companion.
running promise
It was the smile which runs before a promise.
way never-forget fingers
The finger of suspicion never forgets the way it has once pointed ...
artist two desire
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.
beauty hath kissed path spirit
Hath the spirit of all beauty Kissed you in the path of duty?