Samuel Richardson Quotes

Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.

Marriage is a state that is attended with so much care and trouble, that it is a kind of faulty indulgence and selfishness to livesingle, in order to avoid the difficulties it is attended with.

Of what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the occasion, by propagating false honor, false glory, and false religion?

Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.

...for my master, bad as I have thought him, is not half so bad as this woman.-To be sure she must be an atheist!

People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.

A good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be.

Tired of myself longing for what I have not

Those who respect age, deserve to live to be old, and to be respected themselves.

Women's eyes are wanderers, and too often bring home guests that are very troublesome to them, and whom, once introduced, they cannot get out of the house.

I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.

Nothing can be more wounding to a spirit not ungenerous, than a generous forgiveness.

Who would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?

How true is the observation that unrequited love turns to deepest hate.

Friendship is the perfection of love and superior to love it is love purified exalted proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love Madam may and love does often stop short of friendship.