List of Jane Porter Quotes

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Jane Porter
Total Quotes 57
When the cup of any sensual pleasure is drained to the bottom, there is always poison in the dregs.
Sensual Cups Poison
There is nothing so clear-sighted and sensible as a noble mind in a low estate.
Humility Mind Noble
Compulsion hardly restores right; love yields all things.
Love Yield Compulsion
The platform or the altar of love may be analyzed and explained; it is constructed of virtue, beauty, and affection. such is the pyre, such is the offering; but the ethereal spark must come from heaven, that lights the sacrifice.
Love Sacrifice Light
How different is the ready hand, tearful eye, and soothing voice, from the ostentatious appearance which is called pity.
Eye Hands Voice
When alexander had subdued the world, and wept that none were left to dispute his arms, his tears were an involuntary tribute to a monarchy that he knew not, man's empire over himself.
Men Tears World
But the most annoying of all public reformers is the personal satirist. though he may be considered by some few as a useful member of society, yet he is only ranked with the hangman, whom we tolerate because he executes the judgment we abhor to do ourselves, and avoid with a natural detestation of his office. the pen of the one and the cord of the other are inseparable in our minds.
Office Mind May
We value the devotedness of friendship rather as an oblation to vanity than as a free interchange of hearts; an endearing contract of sympathy, mutual forbearance, and respect!
Friendship Heart Vanity
Magnanimity is above circumstance; and any virtue which depends on that is more of constitution than of principle.
Principles Constitution Virtue
National antipathy is the basest, because the most illiberal and illiterate of all prejudices.
Prejudice Illiterate Antipathy
The only impregnable citadel of virtue is religion; for there is no bulwark of mere morality, which some temptation may not overtop or undermine, and destroy.
Temptation Religion May
Virtue, without the graces, is like a rich diamond unpolished--it hardly looks better than a common pebble; but when the hand of the master rubs off the roughness, and forms the sides into a thousand brilliant surfaces, it is then that we acknowledge its worth, admire its beauty, and long to wear it in our bosoms.
Hands Long Grace
  • Born: January 17, 1776
  • Died: May 24, 1850
  • Occupation: Novelist
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