Quotes By Samuel Richardson

Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.

Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.

The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.

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

All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.

A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.

A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.

Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.

Nothing dries sooner than tears.

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.

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

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.

Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.

What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition?

All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

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.

For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.

There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.

O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!

Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.

Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.

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

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

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.

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.

The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.

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.