Quote

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.

Ann Radcliffe

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ann Radcliffe
Age: 58 †
Born: 1764
Born: July 9
Died: 1823
Died: February 7
Author
Novelist
Writer
Ann Ward
Anne Radcliffe
Anne Ward
Ann Ward Radcliffe
Ann Ward
Mrs. Radcliffe
Ann Radcliffe
née Ward
Quite
Knowing
Happy
Understand
Tolerably
Anything
Notwithstanding
Matter
Guessing
Beyond
Perhaps

More quotes by Ann Radcliffe

Image
I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.
Ann Radcliffe
Image
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.
Ann Radcliffe
Image
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
Image
Wisdom can boast no higher attainment than happiness.
Ann Radcliffe
Image
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!
Ann Radcliffe
Image
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.
Ann Radcliffe
Image
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.
Ann Radcliffe
Image
It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one!
Ann Radcliffe
Image
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.
Ann Radcliffe
Image
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
Image
When justice happens to oppose prejudice, we are apt to believe it virtuous to disobey her.
Ann Radcliffe
Image
One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.
Ann Radcliffe
Image
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
Image
Never will I give my hand where my heart does not accompany it.
Ann Radcliffe
Image
Vanity often produces unreasonable alarm.
Ann Radcliffe
Image
How despicable is that humanity, which can be contented to pity, where it might assuage!
Ann Radcliffe
Image
Ignorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice.
Ann Radcliffe
Image
The world ridicules a passion which it seldom feels its scenes, and its interests, distract the mind, deprave the taste, corrupt the heart, and love cannot exist in a heart that has lost the meek dignity of innocence.
Ann Radcliffe
Image
He loved the soothing hour, when the last tints of light die away when the stars, one by one, tremble through æther, 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.
Ann Radcliffe
Image
Sentiment is a disgrace, instead of an ornament, unless it lead us to good actions.
Ann Radcliffe