Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.
Ann Radcliffe
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Yield
Conviction
Weakness
Force
Trifles
Fear
Superstition
Mind
Superstitions
Begun
Impress
More quotes by Ann Radcliffe
It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one!
Ann Radcliffe
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
I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.
Ann Radcliffe
How despicable is that humanity, which can be contented to pity, where it might assuage!
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
If the weak hand, that has recorded this tale, has, by its scenes, beguiled the mourner of one hour of sorrow, or, by its moral, taught him to sustain it - the effort, however humble, has not been vain, nor is the writer unrewarded.
Ann Radcliffe
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
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!
Ann Radcliffe
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
How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!
Ann Radcliffe
Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.
Ann Radcliffe
There is no accounting for tastes.
Ann Radcliffe
When justice happens to oppose prejudice, we are apt to believe it virtuous to disobey her.
Ann Radcliffe
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
Never will I give my hand where my heart does not accompany it.
Ann Radcliffe
There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.
Ann Radcliffe
But St. Aubert had too much good sense to prefer a charm to a virtue.
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
Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow.
Ann Radcliffe
Wisdom can boast no higher attainment than happiness.
Ann Radcliffe