Best Samuel Richardson Sayings
- There cannot be any great happiness in the married life except each in turn give up his or her own humors and lesser inclinations. Any
- Friendly satire may be compared to a fine lancet, which gently breathes a vein for health's sake. Breathe
- An honest heart is not to be trusted with itself in bad company. Bad
- An acknowledged love sanctifies every little freedom; and little freedoms beget great ones. Acknowledged
- A prudent person, having to do with a designing one, will always distrust most when appearances are fairest. Always Distrust
- Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal. Deal
- It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves. Easier
- Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife. Bear
- The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications. Companion
- Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache. Ache
- Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole. Draw
- A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive. Accountable
- The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions. Continual
- 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… Care
- Calamity is the test of integrity. Calamity
- Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world. Busy
- 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,… Already Perhaps
- A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play. Better
- People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question. Angry
- Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense. Every Scholar
- Those we dislike can do nothing to please us. Dislike
- All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest. All
- 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… Another Yet
- Women do not often fall in love with philosophers. Fall
- Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest. Called
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