Novelist · English · 1689 – 1761 · 82 quotes
People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.
Samuel Richardson
Novelist · English · 1689 – 1761
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.
A man may keep a woman, but not his estate.
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.
Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.
Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.
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.
It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.
Those who will bear much, shall have much to bear.
Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.
We are all very ready to believe what we like.
Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.
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.
The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master.
Calamity is the test of integrity.
Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.
Love is not a volunteer thing.
Nothing dries sooner than tears.
