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 love on his side, the chances are that in the end she will elevate and refine him.
Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love. - Anna Brownell Jameson
Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love.
- 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
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…
Of how many women might the history be comprised in those few words - 'she lived, suffered, and was buried'! - Anna Brownell Jameson
Of how many women might the history be comprised in those few words - 'she lived, suffered, and was buried'!
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
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…
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
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…
Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords-philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather. - Anna Brownell Jameson
Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords-philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.
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
All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.
The moment one begins to solder right and wrong together, one's conscience becomes like a piece of plated goods. - Anna Brownell Jameson
The moment one begins to solder right and wrong together, one's conscience becomes like a piece of plated goods.
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
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…
Login to join the discussion
Login to join the discussion