Men Quotes by Samuel Richardson

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

— Samuel Richardson

Good men must be affectionate men.

— Samuel Richardson

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

— Samuel Richardson

Rakes are more suspicious than honest men.

— Samuel Richardson

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

— 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

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

— 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

A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.

— Samuel Richardson

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

— Samuel Richardson

There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover…

— Samuel Richardson

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

— 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

All women, from the countess to the cook-maid, are put into high good humor with themselves when a man is taken with…

— Samuel Richardson

A man who insults the modesty of a woman, as good as tells her that he has seen something in her conduct…

— 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

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more…

— Samuel Richardson

If a woman knows a man to be a libertine, yet will, without scruple, give him her company, he will think half…

— Samuel Richardson

A good man will extend his munificence to the industrious poor of all persuasions reduced by age, infirmity, or accident; to thosewho…

— Samuel Richardson

A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.

— Samuel Richardson

What honest man would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?

— Samuel Richardson

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

— Samuel Richardson

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

— Samuel Richardson

Reverence to a woman in courtship is less to be dispensed with, as, generally, there is but little of it shown afterwards.

— Samuel Richardson

The coyest maids make the fondest wives.

— Samuel Richardson

The woman who thinks meanly of herself is any man's purchase.

— Samuel Richardson

Angry men make themselves beds of nettles.

— Samuel Richardson

Who would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?

— Samuel Richardson

Men are less forgiving than women.

— Samuel Richardson

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

— Samuel Richardson

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

— Samuel Richardson

Women love those best (whether men, women, or children) who give them most pain.

— 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

But let not those worthy young women, who may think themselves destined to a single life, repine over-much at their lot; since,…

— Samuel Richardson