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Samuel Richardson Quotes About Women

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.

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A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.

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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

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.

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

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Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.

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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!

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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.

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Samuel Richardson Quotes About Love

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.

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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.

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Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.

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

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Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.

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Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.

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Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.

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Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.

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More Quotes by Samuel Richardson

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

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

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

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A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.

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Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.

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Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.

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

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

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People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.

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

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For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.

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The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.

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

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The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.

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Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.

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Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

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Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.

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

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Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

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

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Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.

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

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

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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.

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To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.

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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.

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Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.

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

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Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.

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There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.

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A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.

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A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.

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

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

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What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.

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The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.

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The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.

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Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.

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Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

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

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

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Browse 82 quotes attributed to Samuel Richardson, listed in the source data as a English Novelist, organized around themes such as Women, Love, Children. Use the topic links to explore similar quotes, or browse the full author collection in one place.