Best Samuel Richardson Quotations
- A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun. Countrymen
- Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it. Every One
- Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity. Calamity
- Sorrow makes an ugly face odious. Face
- There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they… Human
- For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse. Better
- Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun. Begun
- All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views. All
- As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man. Checked
- From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured. All
- Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight. Fortnight
- Love is not a volunteer thing. Inspirational
- Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures. Creatures
- O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else! Envy
- Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor. Deeper
- Quantity in diet is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry. Both
- Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it. Act
- The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal. Advantage
- The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased. Affords
- The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant. Folks
- The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor. Inspirational
- There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves. Feel
- Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation. Funny
- Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer? Alexander
- 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… Appreciate
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