Anna Seward Quotes

#1. If I had girls to educate I would not have them learn both music and drawing.

Anna Seward

#2. Time's stern tide, with cold Oblivion's wave, Shall soon dissolve each fair, each fading charm.

Anna Seward

#3. To what derision should I be exposed from a thousand quarters!- An unlearned female entering the lists of criticism against the mighty Johnson!

Anna Seward

#4. Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain.

Anna Seward

#5. Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness.

Anna Seward

#6. Let me be content with being happy, without sighing that I am not distinguished.

Anna Seward

#7. Were I to flatter myself with the possibility of success in such combat, it would indeed be presumption.

Anna Seward

#8. A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.

Anna Seward