Quotes by Samuel Richardson

About Samuel Richardson:

Samuel Richardson is best known for his three epistolary novels: Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded (1740), Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady (1748) and The History of Sir Charles Grandison (1753). Richardson was an established printer and publisher for most of his life and printed almost 500 different works, including journals and magazines.
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Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.

Samuel Richardson

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

Samuel Richardson

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.

Samuel Richardson

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

Samuel Richardson

How true is the observation that unrequited love turns to deepest hate.

Samuel Richardson

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.

Samuel Richardson

Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.

Samuel Richardson

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

Samuel Richardson

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

Samuel Richardson

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

Samuel Richardson

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.

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.

Samuel Richardson

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

Samuel Richardson

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.

Samuel Richardson

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

Samuel Richardson

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

Samuel Richardson

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.

Samuel Richardson

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

Samuel Richardson

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

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

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

Author Bio

  • NameSamuel Richardson
  • DescriptionEnglish writer and printer
  • BornAugust 19, 1689
  • DiedJuly 4, 1761
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist