Quotes By Samuel Richardson

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

Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.

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.

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

We are all very ready to believe what we like.

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

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.

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

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.

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.

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

The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.

Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.

There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.

Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.

Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.

Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.

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.

Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.

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.

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

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.

Those who will bear much, shall have much to bear.

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

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.

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.