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Anna Brownell Jameson was an English writer born in May 1794 and died in March 1860. She is known for her extensive literary works and her contributions to the advancement of women's literary status.

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Famous Anna Brownell Jameson Quotes

“A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning.”

Mind Ready Delight Cunning Prey

Book:A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected

Source: A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected

“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.”

Mind Term My Own Teach Profound Phrases Contradiction Contempt Shallow Cunning Diseased Life Teaches

Author:Anna Brownell Jameson

“In every mind where there is a strong tendency to fear there is a strong capacity to hate. Those who dwell in fear dwell nest door to hate; and I think it is the cowardice of women which makes them such intense haters.”

Thinking Mind Hate Strong Fear Doors Capacity Intense Tendencies Cowardice Nests

Book:A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected

Source: A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected

“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.”

Men Mind Ends Shows Poor Poverty Struggle Proud Empty Ruined Hollow Purses Pretence

Author:Anna Brownell Jameson

“Reputation being essentially contemporaneous, is always at the mercy of the Envious and the Ignorant. But Fame, whose very birth is posthumous, and which is only known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds, can neither be increased nor diminished by any degree of wilfulness.”

Mind Known Birth Fame Degrees Mercy Ignorant Reputation Echoes Footsteps Envious Posthumous

Author: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 love on his side, the chances are that in the end she will elevate and refine him.”

Ifs Men Mind Ends Sides Chance Superiors Miserable Inferiors Vulgar Chances Are Wedlock

Book:A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected

Source: A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected

“Thoughts and emotions which never perhaps were in the mind of the artist, never were anticipated, never were intended by him - may be strongly suggested by his work. This is an important part of the morals of art, which we must never lose sight of. Art is not only for pleasure and profit, but for good and for evil.”

Mind May Art Important Artist Evil Loses Pleasure Emotion Moral Art Is Sight Profit Thoughts And Emotions

Book:A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected

Source: A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected

“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.”

Needs Mind Art Doors Genius Paint Popularity

Book:Memoirs and essays, illustrative of art, literature and social morals

Source: Memoirs and essays, illustrative of art, literature and social morals

“What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of mind, for the moment realizes itself.”

Inspirational Mind Moments Dream Realizing Mere Aspiration Aspire Frame Of Mind

Author:Anna Brownell Jameson

“Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds.”

Mind Known Fame Echoes Footsteps

Author:Anna Brownell Jameson

About the Author

Born: May 19, 1794
Died: March 17, 1860
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 73

Books & Sources

A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selectedRelated source material

Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in CanadaRelated source material

Memoirs and essays, illustrative of art, literature and social moralsRelated source material

Sketches of art, literature, and character [orig. publ. as Visits and sketches at home and abroad].Related source material

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