Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeable face?
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
Beauty
Face
Help
Faces
Helping
Character
Good
Men
Disagreeable
More quotes by Ann Radcliffe
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
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
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
To a generous mind few circumstances are more afflicting than a discovery of perfidy in those whom we have trusted.
Ann Radcliffe
There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.
Ann Radcliffe
It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one!
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 are some few instances in which it is virtuous to disobey.
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
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
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
One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.
Ann Radcliffe
I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.
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
Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.
Ann Radcliffe
Vanity often produces unreasonable alarm.
Ann Radcliffe
What is acquired without labor is seldom worth acquiring at all.
Ann Radcliffe
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
Sentiment is a disgrace, instead of an ornament, unless it lead us to good actions.
Ann Radcliffe
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
