Fanny Kemble Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• Politics of all sorts, I confess, are far beyond my limited powers of comprehension. Those of this country as far as I have been able to observe, resolve themselves into two great motives. The aristocratic desire of elevation and separation, and the democratic desire of demolishing and levelling.

  Fanny Kemble

  Country, Two, Desire

  Fanny Kemble (1835). “Journal of a Residence in America”, p.95

• My chief time for reading is at night while brushing my hair before I go to bed, and as you may suppose, but little profit and pleasure can be derived from such mere sips at the well of knowledge. 'Tis a great privation to me, for my desire for information increases instead of diminishing, and I look forward with great anxiety to the time when I can improve my poor neglected mind and learn some of the few exhaustless store of things which I wish to know.

  Fanny Kemble

  Reading, Night, Hair

  Fanny Kemble, Fanny Kemble Wister (1972). “Fanny, the American Kemble: her journals and unpublished letters”

• I never desire to know anything of the detail of political measures, lest even those which I think best should lose anything of their intrinsic value to me, by seeing what low, paltry, personal motives and base machinery and dirty hands have helped to bring them about.

  Fanny Kemble

  Dirty, Thinking, Hands

  Fanny Kemble (1891). “Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters”

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