Ann Radcliffe Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• But St. Aubert had too much good sense to prefer a charm to a virtue.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Too Much, Virtue, Charm

  Ann Radcliffe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ann Radcliffe (Illustrated)”, p.584, Delphi Classics

• 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

  Real, Taste, Littles

  Ann Radcliffe (1795). “The Mysteries of Udolfo: A Romance Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry”, p.132

• 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

  Art, Spring, Passion

  Ann Radcliffe (2015). “The Mysteries of Udolpho”, p.550, Simon and Schuster

• Happiness has this essential difference from what is commonly called pleasure, that virtue forms its basis, and virtue being the offspring of reason, may be expected to produce uniformity of effect.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Differences, Essentials, May

  Ann Radcliffe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ann Radcliffe (Illustrated)”, p.124, Delphi Classics

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