Quotes By Samuel Richardson

Nothing dries sooner than tears.

Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.

All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

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

Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.

What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition?

Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.

Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.

For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.

There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.

Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.

People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.

To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.

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

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.

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

A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.

Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.

The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.