Samuel Richardson Quotes
One of the most admired fiction-writers of his day, both in his native England and across Europe. He is now considered one of the fathers of the novel.
(1689 - 1761)
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A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.
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A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.
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A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.
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A man may keep a woman, but not his estate.
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A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.
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A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
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All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
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All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.
[Childhood]
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As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.
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Calamity is the test of integrity.
[Adversity]
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Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.
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Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.
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For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.
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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.
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From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.
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Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.
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Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.
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Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.
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Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.
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Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.
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