Samuel Richardson

Those who will bear much, shall have much to bear.

— Samuel Richardson

Calamity is the test of integrity.

— Samuel Richardson

The coyest maids make the fondest wives.

— Samuel Richardson

Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.

— Samuel Richardson

The person who is worthiest to live, is fittest to die.

— Samuel Richardson

Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.

— Samuel Richardson

I know not my own heart if it be not absolutely free.

— Samuel Richardson

The unhappy never want enemies.

— Samuel Richardson

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

— Samuel Richardson

Honesty is good sense, politeness, amiableness,--all in one.

— Samuel Richardson

Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.

— Samuel Richardson

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

— Samuel Richardson

Men know no medium: They will either, spaniel-like, fawn at your feet, or be ready to leap into your lap.

— Samuel Richardson

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

— Samuel Richardson

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

— Samuel Richardson

Old men, imagining themselves under obligation to young paramours, seldom keep any thing from their knowledge.

— Samuel Richardson

“Many a man has been ashamed of his wicked attempts, when he has been repulsed, that would never have been ashamed of…

— Samuel Richardson

What a world is this! What is there in it desirable? The good we hope for so strangely mixed, that one knows…

— Samuel Richardson

A feeling heart is a blessing that no one, who has it, would be without; and it is a moral security of…

— Samuel Richardson

Women who have had no lovers, or having had one, two or three, have not found a husband, have perhaps rather had…

— Samuel Richardson

A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation…

— Samuel Richardson

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women…

— Samuel Richardson

Be sure don't let people's telling you, you are pretty, puff you up; for you did not make yourself, and so can…

— Samuel Richardson

The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love…

— Samuel Richardson

The world, the wise world, that never is wrong itself, judges always by events. And if he should use me ill, then…

— Samuel Richardson

“I hope, as he assures me, he was not guilty of Indecency; but have Reason to bless God, who, by disabling me…

— Samuel Richardson

When we reflect upon the cruelties daily practised upon such of the animal creation as are given us for food, or which…

— Samuel Richardson

“Is it not strange, that Love borders so much upon Hate? But this wicked Love is not like the true virtuous Love,…

— Samuel Richardson

The world, the wise world, that never is wrong itself, judges always by events. And if he should use me ill, then…

— Samuel Richardson

The readiness with which women are apt to forgive the men who have deceived other women; and that inconsiderate notion of too…

— Samuel Richardson

Youth is rather to be pitied than envied by people in years since it is doomed to toil through the rugged road…

— Samuel Richardson

Men and women are brothers and sisters; they are not of different species; and what need be obtained to know both, but…

— Samuel Richardson

“I was exceedingly affected, says he, upon the occasion. But was ashamed to be surprised by her into such a fit of…

— Samuel Richardson

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

— Samuel Richardson

Good men must be affectionate men.

— Samuel Richardson

Nothing dries sooner than tears.

— Samuel Richardson

The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.

— Samuel Richardson

The grace that makes every grace amiable is humility.

— Samuel Richardson

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

— Samuel Richardson

Whom we fear more than love, we are not far from hating.

— Samuel Richardson