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

- Anna Brownell Jameson

If a superior woman marry a vulgar or inferior man, he makes her miserable, but seldom governs her mind or vulgarizes her nature; and if there be lov…

- Anna Brownell Jameson

Of how many women might the history be comprised in those few words - 'she lived, suffered, and was buried'!

- Anna Brownell Jameson

Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love.

- Anna Brownell Jameson

Social opinion is like a sharp knife. There are foolish people who regard it only with terror, and dare not touch or meddle with it. There are more f…

- Anna Brownell Jameson

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

- Anna Brownell Jameson

All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.

- Anna Brownell Jameson

The moment one begins to solder right and wrong together, one's conscience becomes like a piece of plated goods.

- Anna Brownell Jameson

To reason from analogy is often dangerous, but to illustrate by a fanciful analogy is sometimes a means by which we light an idea, as it were, into t…

- Anna Brownell Jameson