Fanny Kemble Quotes
November 27, 1809 – 1893
More Fanny Kemble Quotes
I want to do everything in the world that can be done.
Fanny Kemble— Journal of a Residence in America, entry for September 11, 1832 (1835).
Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.
Fanny Kemble— Further Records, 1848-1883, vol. 1; entry dated January 20, 1875 (1891).
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.
Fanny Kemble— Further Records, 1848-1883, vol. 1; entry dated February 12, 1874 (1891).
