--- title: "2 Anne Radcliffe Quotes" description: "Ann Radcliffe was an English novelist and poet who pioneered the Gothic novel. Her fourth and most popular novel, The Mysteries of Udolpho, was publishe..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b026/author-anne-radcliffe-100354.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Anne Radcliffe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b026/author-anne-radcliffe-100354.jpg) # Anne Radcliffe **2** quotes in **8** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Ann Radcliffe was an English novelist and poet who pioneered the Gothic novel. Her fourth and most popular novel, The Mysteries of Udolpho, was published in 1794. She is also remembered for her third novel, The Romance of the Forest (1791) and her fifth novel, The Italian (1797). Her novels combine ## Quotes by Anne Radcliffe > [“There are certain prejudices attached to the human mind which it requires all our wisdom to keep from interfering with our happiness;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-radcliffe/there-are-certain-prejudices-attached-to-the-human-mind-which-it/) [Anne Radcliffe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-radcliffe/) [Character](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/character/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c5a/anne-radcliffe-100354_character_there-are-certain-prejudices-attached-to_1791236.jpg) > [“These scenes,’ said Valancourt, at length, ‘soften the heart, like the notes of sweet music, and inspire that delicious melancholy which no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-radcliffe/these-scenes-said-valancourt-at-length-soften-the-heart-like-the/) [Anne Radcliffe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-radcliffe/) [Melancholy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/melancholy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad4/anne-radcliffe-100354_melancholy_these-scenes-said-valancourt-at-length-s_2967218.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-radcliffe/#itemlist", "name": "Anne Radcliffe Quotes", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“There are certain prejudices attached to the human mind which it requires all our wisdom to keep from interfering with our happiness; certain set notions, acquired in infancy, and cherished involuntarily by age, which grow up and assume a gloss so plausible, that few minds, in what is called a civilized country, can afterwards overcome them. Truth is often perverted by education. While the refined Europeans boast a standard of honour, and a sublimity of virtue, which often leads them from pleasure to misery, and from nature to error, the simple, uninformed American follows the impulse of his heart, and obeys the inspiration of wisdom. Nature, uncontaminated by false refinement, every where acts alike in the great occurrences of life. The Indian discovers his friend to be perfidious, and he kills him; the wild Asiatic does the same; the Turk, when ambition fires, or revenge provokes, gratifies his passion at the expence of life, and does not call it murder. Even the polished Italian, distracted by jealousy, or tempted by a strong circumstance of advantage, draws his stiletto, and accomplishes his purpose. It is the first proof of a superior mind to liberate itself from the prejudices of country, or of education… Self-preservation is the great law of nature; when a reptile hurts us, or an animal of prey threatens us, we think no farther, but endeavour to annihilate it. 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