Top 6 Quotes by Harriet Hosmer

I honor every woman who has strength enough to step out of the beaten path when she feels that her walk lies in another.

I honor every woman who has strength enough to step out of the beaten path when she feels that her walk lies in another.

Harriet Hosmer

Inspirational, Lying, Honor

Even if so inclined, an artist has no business to marry. For a man, it may be well enough, but for a woman, on whom matrimonial duties and cares weigh more heavily, it is a moral wrong, for she must either neglect her family, or her profession.

Harriet Hosmer

Artist, Men, Care

[On leaving the U.S. for Italy:] I ought to be accomplishing thrice as much as now, and feel that I am soul-bound and thought-bound in this land of dollars and cents.

Harriet Hosmer

Land, Leaving, Soul

A pun, like champagne, loses its sparkle when too long drawn out. Its flash is its savor.

Harriet Hosmer

Long, Sparkle, Champagne

Harriet Goodhue Hosmer (1913). “Harriet Hosmer: letters and memories”

We do not claim that punning is legitimate wit. Wit consists in combination of ideas, punning in combination of words only. We wonder at the one, but we laugh at the drollery of the other - as the world goes a pun is regarded as an imponderable commodity, all know the rank it holds in the order of pure intellect.

Harriet Hosmer

Ideas, Order, Laughing

Harriet Goodhue Hosmer (1913). “Harriet Hosmer: letters and memories”