Famous Quotes by Samuel Richardson
- All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes,... More
- Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole. More
- We are all very ready to believe what we like. More
- Nothing dries sooner than tears. More
- The eye is the casement at which the heart generally looks out. Many a woman who will not show... More
- What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition? More
- Women love those best (whether men, women, or children) who give them most pain. More
- Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest. More
- If women would make themselves appear as elegant to an Husband, as they were desirous to appear... More
- Sorrow makes an ugly face odious. More
- Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others. More
- A widow’s refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope. More
- Who ever was in fault, Self being judge? More
- Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we... More
- All that hoops are good for is to clean dirty shoes and keep fellows at a distance. More
- A brother may not be a friend, but a friend will always be a brother. More
- Handsome husbands often make a wife’s heart ache. More
- We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary. More
- A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play. More
- I never knew a man who deserved to be thought well of for his morals who had a slight opinion of... More
- Old men, imagining themselves under obligation to young paramours, seldom keep any thing from... More
- Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight. More
- The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors. More
- ‘Tis a barbarous temper, and a sign of a very ill nature, to take delight in shocking any one:... More
- Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife. More
- To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion,... More
- Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun. More
- Men know no medium: They will either, spaniel-like, fawn at your feet, or be ready to leap into... More
- Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one... More
- Of what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the... More
- There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between... More
- Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer? More
- There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for... More
- In all Works of This, and of the Dramatic Kind, STORY, or AMUSEMENT, should be considered as... More
- What a world is this! What is there in it desirable? The good we hope for so strangely mixed,... More
- Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than... More
- Necessity may well be called the mother of invention—but calamity is the test of integrity. More
- Superstitious notions propagated in infancy are hardly ever totally eradicated, not even in minds... More
- Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made... More
- It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept. More
- There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious. More
- Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon... More
- There is a good and a bad light in which every thing that befalls us may be taken. If the human... More
- Those who will bear much, shall have much to bear. More
- It is better to be thought perverse than insincere. More
- I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while... More
- Marriage is the highest state of friendship: If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at... More
- Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be... More
- Nothing can be more wounding than a generous forgiveness. More
- Whom we fear more than love, we are not far from hating. More
- Those we dislike can do nothing to please us. More
- Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study... More
- Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen... More
- It is a happy art to know when one has said enough. I would leave my hearers wishing me to say... More
- Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health. More
- There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action. More
- We have nothing to do, but to choose what is right, to be steady in the pursuit of it, and leave... More
- The unhappy never want enemies. More
- Reverence to a woman in courtship is less to be dispensed with, as, generally, there is but... More
- Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating. More
- All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy... More
- The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor. More
- The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a... More
- The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions. More
- Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves. More
- The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own... More
- Women who have had no lovers, or having had one, two or three, have not found a husband, have... More
- Good men must be affectionate men. More
- What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear. More
- Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense. More
- Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know. More
- The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having... More
- From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear... More
- A husband’s mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates. More
- The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most... More
- What the unpenetrating world call Humanity, is often no more than a weak mind pitying itself. More
- People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with. More
- People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question. More
- Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a... More
- When we reflect upon the cruelties daily practised upon such of the animal creation as are given... More
- All women, from the countess to the cook-maid, are put into high good humor with themselves when... More
- A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive. More
- Youth is rather to be pitied than envied by people in years since it is doomed to toil through... More
- Women do not often fall in love with philosophers. More
- Love before marriage is absolutely necessary. More
- Those who doubt themselves most generally err least. More
- Every thing is pretty that is young. More
- Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated. More
- O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good!—I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else! More
- If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many... More
- There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and... More
- Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous. More
- The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons. More
- The world, the wise world, that never is wrong itself, judges always by events. And if he should... More
- Though a censure lies against those who are poor and proud, yet is Pride sooner to be forgiven in... More
- The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, “I am now,... More
- An acquaintance with the muses, in the education of youth, contributes not a little to soften the... More
- Love is not a volunteer thing. More
- The richest princes and the poorest beggars are to have one great and just judge at the last day... More
- Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures. More
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