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Samuel Richardson
17 quotes
“O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! — I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!”
Samuel Richardson (1687–1761) said by 1761 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My Master said, on another Occasion, that those who doubt most, always erred least.”
Samuel Richardson (1687–1761) said by 1761 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.”
Samuel Richardson (1687–1761) said by 1761 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.”
Samuel Richardson (1687–1761) said by 1761 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.”
Samuel Richardson (1687–1761) said by 1761 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.”
Samuel Richardson (1687–1761) said by 1761 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Love gratified, is love satisfied — and love satisfied, is indifference begun.”
Samuel Richardson (1687–1761) said by 1761 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nothing can be more wounding to a spirit not ungenerous, than a generous forgiveness.”
Samuel Richardson (1687–1761) said by 1761 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Vast is the field of Science … the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.”
Samuel Richardson (1687–1761) said by 1761 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.”
Samuel Richardson (1687–1761) said by 1761 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Samuel Richardson (1687–1761) said by 1761 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.”
Samuel Richardson (1687–1761) said by 1761 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A feeling heart is a blessing that no one, who has it, would be without; and it is a moral security of innocence; since the heart that is able to partake of the distress of another, cannot wilfully give it.”
Samuel Richardson (1687–1761) said by 1761 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.”
Samuel Richardson (1687–1761) said by 1761 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Of what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the occasion, by propagating false honour, false glory, and false religion?”
Samuel Richardson (1687–1761) said by 1761 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1687–1761) said by 1761 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The pen is almost as pretty an implement in a woman's fingers, as a needle.”
Samuel Richardson (1687–1761) said by 1761 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source