Anna Katharine Green Quotes

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

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
The finger of suspicion never forgets the way it has once pointed...

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

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

Anna Katharine Green
I am a comfortable sort of person when alone, and found no difficulty in passing this time profitably.

Anna Katharine Green
Mr. Gryce was melancholy. He had attained that period in life when the spirits flag and enthusiasm needs a constant spur, and of late there had been a lack of special excitement, and he felt dull and superannuated.

Anna Katharine Green
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