Anna Jameson Quotes

"The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself."
- Anna Jameson
(Related: Competition, Man)

"What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are."
- Anna Jameson
(Related: Sense)

"We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love."
- Anna Jameson
(Related: Love)

"Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth."
- Anna Jameson
(Related: Truth, Accuracy, Language)

"Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather."
- Anna Jameson
(Related: Art, Love, Poetry, Conversation, May, Philosophy, Scandal, Weather)

"All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side."
- Anna Jameson
(Related: Experience, Question, World)

"A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense."
- Anna Jameson
(Related: Fool, Man, May, Sense, Sensibility, Want)

"Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never."
- Anna Jameson
(Related: Childhood, Man, Visit, Youth)

"In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil."
- Anna Jameson
(Related: Religion, Fear, Beginning, Evil, Fanaticism, Morals, Motive, Wickedness)