Top 57 Ann Radcliffe Quotes
#1. When her mind was discomposed ... a book was the opiate that lulled it to repose.
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#2. ... unpacked her books, her sweet delight in happier days, and her soothing resource in the hours of moderate sorrow: but there were hours when even these failed of their effect; when the genius, the taste, the enthusiasm of the sublimest writers were felt no longer.
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#3. There is something in the ardour and ingenousness of youth, which is particularly pleasing to the contemplation of an old man, if his feelings have not been entirely corroded by the world.
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#4. At first a small line of inconceivable splendour emerged on the horizon, which, quickly expanding, the sun appeared in all of his glory, unveiling the whole face of nature, vivifying every colour of the landscape, and sprinkling the dewy earth with glittering light.
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#5. 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.
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#6. What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeable face?
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#7. He was a descendant from the younger branch of an illustrious family, and it was designed, that the deficiency of his patrimonial wealth should be supplied either by a splendid alliance in marriage, or by success in the intrigues of public affairs.
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#8. 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!
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#9. Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.
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#10. There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves.
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#12. When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.
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#13. Wisdom can boast no higher attainment than happiness.
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#14. The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured. Unhappy they who have never been taught the art to govern them!
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#15. How short a period often reverses the character of our sentiments, rendering that which yesterday we despised, today desirable.
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#16. You speak like a heroine,' said Montoni, contemptuously; 'we shall see if you can suffer like one.
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#17. 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?
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#18. To a generous mind few circumstances are more afflicting than a discovery of perfidy in those whom we have trusted ...
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#19. Why all this terror?' said he, in a tremulous voice. 'Hear me, Emily: I come not to alarm you; no, by Heaven! I love you too well- too well for my own peace.
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#20. The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above the conceptions, as well as the descriptions, of those in health.
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#21. To discover depravity in those whom we have loved, is one of the most exquisite tortures to a virtuous mind, and the conviction is often rejected before it is finally admitted.
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#22. ...but I desire i may no further be harassed, and i recommend it to you to retire to your chamber, and to endeavour to adopt a more retional conduct, than that yielding to fancies, and to a sensibility, which, to call it by the gentlest name, is only a weakness.
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#23. He brought music of his own, and awakened every fairy echo with the tender accents of his oboe ...
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#24. Towards evening, they wound down precipices, black with forest of cypress, pine and cedar, into a glen so savage and secluded, that, if Solicitude ever had local habitation, this might have been "her place of dearest residence
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#25. She knew nothing of the conduct of a mind, that fears to trust its own powers; which, possessing a nice judgment, and inclining to believe, that every other person perceives still more critically, fears to commit itself to censure, and seeks shelter in the obscurity of silence.
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#26. When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.
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#27. But no matter for that, you can be tolerably happy, perhaps, notwithstanding; but as for guessing how happy I am, or knowing anything about the matter,
O! its quite beyond what you can understand.
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#28. I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that provoked it.
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#29. She wanted to complain, not to be consoled; and it was by exclamations of complaint only, Emily learned the particular circumstances of her affliction
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#30. Fate sits on these dark battlements and frowns, And as the portal opens to receive me, A voice in hollow murmurs through the courts Tells of a nameless deed.
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#32. Ignorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice.
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#33. It was new to Emily to part with any person, with whom she was connected, without feeling of regret; the moment, however, in which she took leave of M. and Madame Quesnel, was, perhaps, the only satisfactory one she had known in their presence.
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#35. When justice happens to oppose prejudice, we are apt to believe it virtuous to disobey her.
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#36. 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.
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#37. He loved the soothing hour, when the last tints of light die away; when the stars, one by one, tremble through aether, and are reflected on the dark mirror of the waters; that hour, which, of all others, inspires the mind with pensive tenderness, and often elevates it to sublime contemplation.
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#38. One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.
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#39. Sentiment is a disgrace, instead of an ornament, unless it lead us to good actions.
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#40. Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.
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#41. afflict; - he had become a clod of earth, and his life was vanished like a shadow!
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#42. It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one!
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#43. Radcliffe is the first important English novelist to use poetic epigraphs, interpolated poems, and poetic fragments decoratively, as it were, for their suggestive or mood-enhancing effects. (Matthew
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#44. How despicable is that humanity, which can be contented to pity, where it might assuage!
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#45. Emily gazed long on the splendours of the world she was quitting, of which the whole magnificence seemed thus given to her sight only to increase her regret on leaving it; for her, Valancourt alone was in that world; to him alone her heart turned, and for him alone fell her bitter tears.
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#46. What is acquired without labor is seldom worth acquiring at all.
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#47. Never will I give my hand where my heart does not accompany it.
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#48. And since, in our passage through this world, painful circumstances occur more frequently than pleasing ones, and since our sense of evil is, I fear, more acute than our sense of good, we become the victims of our feelings, unless we can in some degree command them.
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#49. There are some few instances in which it is virtuous to disobey.
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#50. Love cannot exist in a heart that has lost the meek dignity of innocence.
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#51. I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.
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#52. Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.
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#53. There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.
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#54. 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!
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#55. But St. Aubert had too much good sense to prefer a charm to a virtue ...
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#56. But the obsessional work of cutting and pasting also enacts, in the most literal way possible, the generic annexation of the poetic by the novelistic. When
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#57. What are riches - grandeur - health itself, to the luxury of a pure conscience, the health of the soul; - and what the sufferings of poverty, disappointment, despair - to the anguish of an afflicted one!
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