Ann Radcliffe Quote

Surely, said she, there is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or a knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good or wise man in poverty!


The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794)


Surely, said she, there is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How...

Surely, said she, there is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How...

Surely, said she, there is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How...

Surely, said she, there is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How...