Quote

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.

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
Tells
Portal
Deeds
Nameless
Court
Courts
Fate
Sits
Darkness
Deed
Dark
Hollow
Battlements
Voice
Opens
Murmurs
Receive
Frowns

More quotes by Ann Radcliffe

Image
It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one!
Ann Radcliffe
Image
What is acquired without labor is seldom worth acquiring at all.
Ann Radcliffe
Image
Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.
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
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
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
Ignorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice.
Ann Radcliffe
Image
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
Image
There are some few instances in which it is virtuous to disobey.
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
When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.
Ann Radcliffe
Image
I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.
Ann Radcliffe
Image
Wisdom can boast no higher attainment than happiness.
Ann Radcliffe
Image
How despicable is that humanity, which can be contented to pity, where it might assuage!
Ann Radcliffe
Image
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.
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
There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.
Ann Radcliffe
Image
Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow.
Ann Radcliffe
Image
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.
Ann Radcliffe
Image
One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.
Ann Radcliffe