Quotes By Samuel Richardson

Calamity is the test of integrity.

Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.

Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.

There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.

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.

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.

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.

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

It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.

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.

Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.

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.

What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.

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.

It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.

Love is not a volunteer thing.

The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.

Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.

Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.

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.

The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.

A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.

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

The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

We are all very ready to believe what we like.