Quotes By Samuel Richardson
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
O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!
Samuel Richardson
There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.
Samuel Richardson
Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.
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
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
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
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
Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
Samuel Richardson
The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.
Samuel Richardson
Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.
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
A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.
Samuel Richardson
Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.
Samuel Richardson
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