Author: Anna Jameson

Quotes

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.

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

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

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

- Anna Jameson

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

- Anna Jameson

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

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

- Anna Jameson

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