Quotes by Fanny Kemble

Fanny Kemble

… it’s always determined characters who make the greatest fools.

Character

Determined

Fool

…I cannot help being astonished at the furious and ungoverned execration which all reference to the possibility of a fusion of the races draws down upon those who suggest it, because nobody pretends to deny that, throughout the South, a large proportion of the population is the offspring of white men and colored women.

Men

Race

White Man

[On disagreeing with her husband about his slave-holding:] I cannot give my conscience into the keeping of another human being or submit the actions dictated by my conscience to their will.

Action

Giving

Husband

[On John Brown:] The poor wretch is hanged, but from his grave a root of bitterness will spring, the fruit of which at no distant day may be disunion and civil war.

Roots

Spring

War

[When her husband said her earnings as a married woman belonged to him:] I cannot persuade myself that that which I invent – create, in fact – can belong to anyone but myself! I wish that women could be dealt with, not mercifully, not compassionately, nor affectionately, but justly; it would be so much better – for the men.

Husband

Men

Wish

A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants…. The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not, of course, give them the feelings and manners of gentle folks, or in any way really raise them above the servants they employ, who are quite aware of this fact, and that the possession of wealth is literally the only superiority their employers have over them.

Giving

House

People

A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their laborious existence, and do not belong either to climate or constitution.

Fall

Numbers

Weakness

A sacred burden is this life ye bear, Look on it, lift it, bear it solemnly, Stand up and walk beneath it steadfastly; Fail not for sorrow, falter not for sin, But onward, upward, till the goal ye win.

Failure

Life

Winning

American gentlemen are a cross between English and French men, and yet really altogether like neither. They are more refined and modest than Frenchmen, and less manly, shy, and rough, than Englishmen. Their brains are finer and flimsier, their bodies less robust and vigorous than ours. We are the finer animals, and they the subtler spirits. Their intellectual tendency is to excitement and insanity, and ours to stagnation and stupidity.

Animal

Men

Stupidity

An actor’s life is the shadow of a cloud, the echo of a sound, the memory of a dream, nothing come of nothing. The finest actor does not create, he is but a translator of another man’s work.

Dream

Memories

Men

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Action

Animal

Atmosphere

Beautiful

Believe

Blessed

Blessing

Bounds

Breeding

Broken

Business

Carols

Cease

Character

Children

Christmas

Comfort

Conditions

Country

Curiosity

Cutting

Death

Desire

Determined

Diamond

Dirty

Discomfort

Distance

Division

Done

Drama

Dream

Ears

Education

Elements

Evil

Exercise

Existence

Eye

Failure

Fall

Fashion

Fear

Female

Flower

Fool

Giving

Glasses

Government

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Quotes by Fanny Kemble

Fanny Kemble

… it’s always determined characters who make the greatest fools.

[On disagreeing with her husband about his slave-holding:] I cannot give my conscience into the keeping of another human being or submit the actions dictated by my conscience to their will.

[On John Brown:] The poor wretch is hanged, but from his grave a root of bitterness will spring, the fruit of which at no distant day may be disunion and civil war.

A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their laborious existence, and do not belong either to climate or constitution.

A sacred burden is this life ye bear, Look on it, lift it, bear it solemnly, Stand up and walk beneath it steadfastly; Fail not for sorrow, falter not for sin, But onward, upward, till the goal ye win.

An actor’s life is the shadow of a cloud, the echo of a sound, the memory of a dream, nothing come of nothing. The finest actor does not create, he is but a translator of another man’s work.

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