Anna Brownell Jameson Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: May 19, 1794 - March 17, 1860
Birthday: May 19
Death: March 17
Reputation being essentially contemporaneous, is always at the mercy of the Envious and the Ignorant. But Fame, whose very birth is posthumous, and which is only known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds, can neither be increased nor diminished by any degree of wilfulness.
source: "Memoirs and Essays, Washington Allston". As quoted in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", p. 256-259, 1922.
topic: Echoes, Ignorant, Mind, Posthumous
