Ann Radcliffe Quotes

United Kingdom, Writer
July 9, 1764 – February, 7, 1823.

Ann Radcliffe was an English author and pioneer of the Gothic novel. Radcliffe's technique of explaining the apparently supernatural elements in her novels has been credited with enabling Gothic fiction to achieve respectability in the 1790s.

Never will I give my hand where my heart does not accompany it.

Ann Radcliffe
- Heart
- Hand
- Accompany
Vanity often produces unreasonable alarm.

Ann Radcliffe
- Vanity
- Produces
- Alarm

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
- Respect
- Poverty
- Treated
One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.

Ann Radcliffe
When justice happens to oppose prejudice, we are apt to believe it virtuous to disobey her.

Ann Radcliffe
What is acquired without labor is seldom worth acquiring at all.

Ann Radcliffe
- Labor
- Worth
- Acquired
Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow.

Ann Radcliffe
I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.

Ann Radcliffe
- People
- Judge
- Actions

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
- Unhappy
- Passions
- Govern
When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

Ann Radcliffe
- Moving
- Hear
- Fears
Sentiment is a disgrace, instead of an ornament, unless it lead us to good actions.

Ann Radcliffe
- Actions
- Lead
- Sentiment
Wisdom can boast no higher attainment than happiness.

Ann Radcliffe
- Wisdom
- Happiness
- Boast
Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe
- Peace
- Happiness
- Tumult