A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.
- Samuel Richardson Quote
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 Quote
A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.
- Samuel Richardson Quote
A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
- Samuel Richardson Quote
All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
- Samuel Richardson Quote
All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.
- Samuel Richardson Quote
As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.
- Samuel Richardson Quote
Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.
- Samuel Richardson Quote
For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.
- Samuel Richardson Quote
Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.
- Samuel Richardson Quote
Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.
- Samuel Richardson Quote
Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.
- Samuel Richardson Quote
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.
- Samuel Richardson Quote
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 Quote
It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.
- Samuel Richardson Quote
It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.
- Samuel Richardson Quote
Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.
- Samuel Richardson Quote
Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.
- Samuel Richardson Quote
Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.
- Samuel Richardson Quote
Love is not a volunteer thing.
- Samuel Richardson Quote
Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.
- Samuel Richardson Quote
Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.
- Samuel Richardson Quote
Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.
- Samuel Richardson Quote
Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
- Samuel Richardson Quote
Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
- Samuel Richardson Quote
Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.
- Samuel Richardson Quote
O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!
- Samuel Richardson Quote
Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.
- Samuel Richardson Quote
People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.
- Samuel Richardson Quote
Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.
- Samuel Richardson Quote
Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.
- Samuel Richardson Quote
Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.
- Samuel Richardson Quote
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.
- Samuel Richardson Quote
The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.
- Samuel Richardson Quote
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 Quote
The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.
- Samuel Richardson Quote
The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.
- Samuel Richardson Quote
The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.
- Samuel Richardson Quote
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 Quote
The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
- Samuel Richardson Quote
The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.
- Samuel Richardson Quote
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 Quote
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.
- Samuel Richardson Quote
There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.
- Samuel Richardson Quote
Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
- Samuel Richardson Quote
Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.
- Samuel Richardson Quote
To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
- Samuel Richardson Quote
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!
- Samuel Richardson Quote
Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.
- Samuel Richardson Quote
We are all very ready to believe what we like.
- Samuel Richardson Quote
What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition?
- Samuel Richardson Quote
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 Quote
Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
- Samuel Richardson Quote
Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.
- Samuel Richardson Quote
Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.
- Samuel Richardson Quote
Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.
- Samuel Richardson Quote
Women who have had no lovers, or having had one, two or three, have not found a husband, have perhaps rather had a miss than a loss, as men go.
- Samuel Richardson Quote
