Quotes By Samuel Richardson

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.

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

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 love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.

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.

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.

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

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.

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.

Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.

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.

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

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 will bear much, shall have much to bear.

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

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

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

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.

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

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.

All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.