Quotes by Samuel Richardson

“You are all too rich to be happy, child. For must not each of you be the constitutions of your family marry to be still richer? People who know in what their main excellence consists are not to be ...”

“I will be a Friend to you, and you shall take care of my Linen”

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

“O how can wicked men seem so steady and untouched with such black hearts, while poor innocents stand like malefactors before them!”

“...for my master, bad as I have thought him, is not half so bad as this woman.--To be sure she must be an atheist!”

“And what after all, is death?? 'Tis but a cessation from mortal life; 'tis but the finishing of an appointed course; the refreshing inn after a fatiguing journey; the end of a life of cares and tro...”

“Many a man has been ashamed of his wicked attempts, when he has been repulsed, that would never have been ashamed of them, had he succeeded.”

“Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.”

“The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.”

“Friendship is the perfection of love and superior to love it is love purified exalted proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love Madam may and love does often stop short of friendship.”

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

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

“Friendship is the perfection of love and superior to love it is love purified exalted proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love Madam may and love does often stop short of friendship.”

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