Anna Katharine Green Quotes & Sayings

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

The finger of suspicion never forgets the way it has once pointed ... — Anna Katharine Green

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

I am a comfortable sort of person when alone, and found no difficulty in passing this time profitably. Being very orderly, as you must have remarked, I have everything at hand for making myself a cup of tea at any time of day or night; — Anna Katharine Green

Though I have had no adventures, I feel capable of them. — Anna Katharine Green

A woman with a secret may be a fascinating study, but she can never be a safe, nor even satisfactory, companion. — Anna Katharine Green

The hand will often reveal more than the countenance ... — Anna Katharine Green

Faces deceive, and the loveliness of youth is not like the loveliness of age - an absolute mirror of the soul within. — Anna Katharine Green

He who steps on stones is glad to feel the smallest spray of moss beneath his feet. — Anna Katharine Green

The very shadows seem to listen. — Anna Katharine Green

I wondered if I were glad or sorry to see it - if I were more pleased with his loyalty to his absent employer, or disappointed that my presence had not made everybody else forgotten. — Anna Katharine Green

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

Perfect beauty is so rare, its effect so magical! — Anna Katharine Green

Men are strange beings, and must not be judged by rules that apply to women. — Anna Katharine Green

It was the smile which runs before a promise. — Anna Katharine Green

Hath the spirit of all beauty Kissed you in the path of duty? — Anna Katharine Green

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