Quotes By Samuel Richardson

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

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

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

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

Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.

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.

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.