Quotes By Samuel Richardson

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.

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

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

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

It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.

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

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

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.

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

Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.

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

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

We are all very ready to believe what we like.

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

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.

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!

A man may keep a woman, but not his estate.