Fanny Kemble Quotes

November 27, 1809 – 1893

Fanny Kemble (November 27, 1809 – 1893) was a famous British actress and author in the early and mid nineteenth century.

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.

Further Records, 1848-1883, vol. 1; entry dated February 12, 1874 (1891).

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As for the exhortation with which Mr. ------ closes his letter, that I will not "go down to my husband's plantation prejudiced against what I am to find there," I know not well how to answer it. Assuredly I am going prejudiced against slavery, for I am an Englishwoman, in whom the absence of such a prejudice would be disgraceful.

Fanny Kemble
— Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839, ch. 1 (1863).

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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).

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Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.

Fanny Kemble
— Further Records, 1848-1883, vol. 1; entry dated January 20, 1875 (1891).

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Fanny Kemble Quotes

November 27, 1809 – 1893

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