Samuel Richardson Quotes

Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.

It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.

I never knew a man who deserved to be thought well of for his morals who had a slight opinion of our Sex in general.

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

It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.

Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?

Beauty is an accidental and transient good.

A fop takes great pains to hang out a sign, by his dress, of what he has within.

Love is a blazing, crackling, green-wood flame, as much smoke as flame; friendship, married friendship particularly, is a steady,intense, comfortable fire. Love, in courtship, is friendship in hope; in matrimony, friendship upon proof.

Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.

There is a good and a bad light in which every thing that befalls us may be taken. If the human mind will busy itself to make theworst of every disagreeable occurrence, it will never want woe.

What pleasure can those over-happy persons know, who, from their affluence and luxury, always eat before they are hungry and drink before they are thirsty?

By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep; nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her.

Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.

The first step in achieving prosperity and wealth is learning to appreciate what you already have.

Men are less forgiving than women.

Calamity is the test of integrity.

Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit.

Vast is the field of Science... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

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

What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.

...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!

Love is not a volunteer thing.

The world, the wise world, that never is wrong itself, judges always by events. And if he should use me ill, then I shall be blamed for trusting him: if well, O then I did right, to be sure!--But how would my censurers act in my case, before the event justifies or condemns the action, is the question.