Calamity Quotes by Samuel Richardson

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

— Samuel Richardson

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

— Samuel Richardson

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

— Samuel Richardson

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

— Samuel Richardson

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

— 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

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

— Samuel Richardson

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,…

— Samuel Richardson

A good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be.

— Samuel Richardson

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

— Samuel Richardson

Superstitious notions propagated in infancy are hardly ever totally eradicate, not even in minds grown strong enough to despise the like credulous folly in…

— Samuel Richardson

The eye is the casement at which the heart generally looks out. Many a woman who will not show herself at the door, has…

— Samuel Richardson

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

— Samuel Richardson

I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light burden heavy.

— Samuel Richardson

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

— Samuel Richardson