Anna Katharine Green famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.
-- Anna Katharine Green

#Artist #Two #Desire
The finger of suspicion never forgets the way it has once pointed ...
-- Anna Katharine Green

#Way #Never Forget #Fingers
It was the smile which runs before a promise.
-- Anna Katharine Green

#Running #Promise
a woman with a secret may be a fascinating study, but she can never be a safe, nor even satisfactory, companion.
-- Anna Katharine Green

#Secret #May #Safe
It would never do for me to lose my wits in the presence of a man who had none too many of his own.
-- Anna Katharine Green

#Men #Intelligence #Wit
the hand will often reveal more than the countenance ...
-- Anna Katharine Green

#Hands #Countenance
faces deceive, and the loveliness of youth is not like the loveliness of age - an absolute mirror of the soul within.
-- Anna Katharine Green

#Mirrors #Soul #Age
There is no suffering like a child's, terrified by a secret which it dare not for some reason disclose.
-- Anna Katharine Green

#Children #Secret #Suffering
The very shadows seem to listen.
-- Anna Katharine Green

#Shadow
Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee?
-- Anna Katharine Green

#Suffering #Apathy #Existence
Though I have had no adventures, I feel capable of them.
-- Anna Katharine Green

#Adventure #Feels #Capable
He who steps on stones is glad to feel the smallest spray of moss beneath his feet.
-- Anna Katharine Green

#Sympathy #Condolences #Feet

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