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How short a period often reverses the character of our sentiments, rendering that which yesterday we despised, today desirable.
— Ann Radcliffe
Virtue and taste are nearly the same, for virtue is little more than active taste, and the most delicate affections of each combine in real love.
— Ann Radcliffe
There is no accounting for tastes.
— Ann Radcliffe
There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.
— Ann Radcliffe
I wish that all those, who on this night are not merry enough to speak before they think, may ever after be grave enough to think before they speak!
— Ann Radcliffe
Never will I give my hand where my heart does not accompany it.
— Ann Radcliffe
How strange it is, that a fool or a knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!
— Ann Radcliffe
One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.
— Ann Radcliffe
She wanted to complain, not to be consoled; and it was by exclamations of complaint only, Emily learned the particular circumstances of her affliction
— Ann Radcliffe
You speak like a heroine,' said Montoni, contemptuously; 'we shall see if you can suffer like one.
— Ann Radcliffe
Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow.
— Ann Radcliffe
When justice happens to oppose prejudice, we are apt to believe it virtuous to disobey her.
— Ann Radcliffe
Vanity often produces unreasonable alarm.
— Ann Radcliffe
How despicable is that humanity, which can be contented to pity, where it might assuage!
— Ann Radcliffe
Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.
— Ann Radcliffe
What is acquired without labor is seldom worth acquiring at all.
— Ann Radcliffe
It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one!
— Ann Radcliffe
He brought music of his own, and awakened every fairy echo with the tender accents of his oboe ...
— Ann Radcliffe
Do you believe your heart to be, indeed, so hardened, that you can look without emotion on the suffering, to which you would condemn me?
— Ann Radcliffe
What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeable face?
— Ann Radcliffe
Wisdom can boast no higher attainment than happiness.
— Ann Radcliffe
The Gothic tradition was begun by Ann Radcliffe, a rare example of a woman creating an artistic style.
— Camille Paglia
There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves.
— Ann Radcliffe
I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that provoked it.
— Ann Radcliffe
When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.
— Ann Radcliffe
The moon now drew a faint light over their path, and, soon after, enabled them to distinguish some towers rising above the tops of the woods.
— Ann Radcliffe
Ignorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice.
— Ann Radcliffe
There are some few instances in which it is virtuous to disobey.
— Ann Radcliffe