Samuel Richardson Quotes

"Women do not often fall in love with philosophers."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Love, Women)

"Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?"
- Samuel Richardson

"Women who have had no lovers, or having had one, two or three, have not found a husband, have perhaps rather had a miss than a loss, as men go."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Men, Women, Husband, Loss, Lovers)

"Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Love, Women)

"Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Youth)

"Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Love, Men, Women, Compliment, Compliments, Want, Will)

"Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Women, Observation)

"Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our dislike."
- Samuel Richardson

"What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition?"
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Ambition, Man)

"We are all very ready to believe what we like."
- Samuel Richardson

"Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Science, Man, Will)

"Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Eyes, Talk, Words)

"Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Thought, Act, Children, Nothing, Parents, World)

"O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!"
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Power, Envy, Nothing)

"The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Education, Men, Women, Difference)

"The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Life, Evening)

"The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Women, Virtue, Cause)

"Sorrow makes an ugly face odious."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Sorrow, Ugly)

"The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: English, Lady, Gentleman, Now)

"Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Learning)

"Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Punishment, Shame)

"Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Food, Quality, Enemy, Quantity, Study)

"Nothing dries sooner than tears."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Nothing, Tears)

"People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: People, Act, Angels)

"The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Love, First, Reading, Will, Worth)

"Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Parents, Youth)

"There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Men, Religious)

"Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Nature, God, Human nature, Nothing)

"To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!"
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Choice, Woman)

"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."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Men, Women, Pride, Self, Will)

"People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: People, Question, Sense, Understanding)

"To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing."
- Samuel Richardson

"Those who will bear much, shall have much to bear."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Will)

"Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: People, World)

"Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Jest, Will)

"Those we dislike can do nothing to please us."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Nothing)

"The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Poor, Tears)

"There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Action, Being, Pride)

"The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Men, Direction, Laws)

"There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Men, HusbDifference, Man)

"The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Delight, Merit, Thinking, World)

"The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Sports, Work, Children, Labor)

"The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Mind, Will)

"The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Letters, Nation, Words)

"The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Life, Man)

"There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Life)

"A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Play)

"Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health."
- Samuel Richardson

"From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Humor, Women)

"For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Mind, Will)

"Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Man, Sense)

"Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Power)

"Calamity is the test of integrity."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Calamity, Integrity)

"Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Wife, Heart, Husbands)

"A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Hope)

"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."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Happiness, Future, Man, Misery)

"A man may keep a woman, but not his estate."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Man, May, Woman)

"A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Mother, Wife, Husband)

"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."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Men, Man, Nation, Sun, Value, Will)

"A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Woman)

"Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Mother, Calamity, Integrity, Invention, May, Necessity)

"Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor."
- Samuel Richardson

"All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Childhood, Trifles, Years)

"Love before marriage is absolutely necessary."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Love, Marriage)

"All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Excellence, Fancy, May)

"Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight."
- Samuel Richardson

"Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Love, Affection, First, May, State, Will)

"Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Humor, People, Quick)

"Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Marriage, Time, Friendship, Participation, State)

"Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Love, Key, Will)

"Love is not a volunteer thing."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Love)

"Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Love, Indifference)

"Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Men, Wife, Understanding)

"Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Men, Wife, Will)

"Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Marriage, Man, Will, Woman, World)

"It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: May)

"It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Fault)

"It is better to be thought perverse than insincere."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Thought)

"If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Education, Society, Children)

"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."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Grace, Humility)

"Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Life, Hope)