Anna Leonowens quotes

“The fact is remarkable, that though education in its higher degrees is popularly neglected in Siam, there is scarcely a man or woman in the empire who cannot read and write.”
-- Anna Leonowens

Source : Anna Leonowens (2009). “The English Governess at the Siamese Court: Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok”, Applewood Books

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“The best doctrine may become the worst, if imperfectly understood, erroneously interpreted, or superstitiously followed.”
-- Anna Leonowens

Source : Anna Leonowens (2009). “The English Governess at the Siamese Court: Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok”, p.184, Applewood Books

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“There is compensation in all things.”
-- Anna Leonowens

Source : Anna Leonowens (2009). “The Romance of the Harem”, p.114, Applewood Books

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“Confidence is a plant of slow growth ...”
-- Anna Leonowens

Source : Speech in 'Hansard' 14 January 1766, col. 97

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“In how many lives there lurks a hidden romance or a hidden terror.”
-- Anna Leonowens

Source : Anna Leonowens (2009). “The Romance of the Harem”, p.114, Applewood Books

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“the night of trouble is at times so dark that the interwoven gold with which Providence relieves the woof of calamity remains undiscovered.”
-- Anna Leonowens

Source : Anna Leonowens (2009). “The Romance of the Harem”, p.114, Applewood Books

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“My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.”

“The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.”

Source : A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.27, Macmillan

“When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.”

“God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.”

“God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.”

“Men have presented their plans and philosophies for the remedying of earth's ills, but Jesus stands alone in presenting not a system, but His own personality as capable of supplying the needs of the soul.”

“Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.”

“When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.”

“The interior of the earth is extremely hot – several million degrees.”

“To you, Sovereign Grand Inspectors General (33rd Degree Masons), we say this, that you may repeat it to the Brethren of the 32nd, 31st, and 30th degrees: 'The Masonic religion should be, by all of us initiates of the high degrees, maintained in the purity of the Luciferian doctrine.'”