Samuel Richardson quotes - page 2

Samuel Richardson was an English writer and printer, renowned for his pioneering work in the development of the English novel. His epistolary novels, such as "Pamela" and "Clarissa," had a profound influence on narrative fiction. He is credited with introducing psychological depth and moral complexity to the form of the novel. Here are 95 of his quotes:

There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.

Samuel Richardson

The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.

Samuel Richardson

There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.

Samuel Richardson

The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.

Samuel Richardson

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

Samuel Richardson

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

Samuel Richardson

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

Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.

Samuel Richardson

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

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

Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.

Samuel Richardson

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

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

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

Samuel Richardson

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

The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.

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Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.

Samuel Richardson

Calamity is the test of integrity.

Samuel Richardson

People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.

Samuel Richardson

Nothing dries sooner than tears.

Samuel Richardson

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

Samuel Richardson

All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

Samuel Richardson