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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

“Chill penury weighs down the heart itself; and though it sometimes be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair.”

Heart Sometimes Poverty Despair Chill Calmness

Author:Anna Brownell Jameson

“Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty.”

Sometimes Extremes Vanity Modesty Ultras

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

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

“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 the understanding of another.”

Mean Ideas Sometimes Reason Light Understanding Dangerous Analogies

Book:Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada

Source: Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada

“Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.”

Men Children Doe Sometimes Pay Childhood Youth Fatherhood

Author:Anna Brownell Jameson

“We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.”

Sometimes Understanding Impossible Time Love Sometimes Love

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

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

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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