"Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight." — Samuel Richardson
"Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight."
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Samuel Richardson
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112 Quotes by Samuel Richardson
Samuel Richardson has 112 quotes on this site.
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Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.
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Those who respect age, deserve to live to be old, and to be respected themselves.
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What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.
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Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
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It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.
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Romances, in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination than to inform the judgment.
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By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep; nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world…
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Men are less forgiving than women.
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What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.
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Women who have had no lovers, or having had one, two or three, have not found a husband, have perhaps…
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The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.
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I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for…
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More Fortnight Quotes
This quote is filed under Fortnight Quotes,
one of 28 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last…
— Hilaire Belloc
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I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than…
— Cyril Connolly
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It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But in the end,…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Sometimes, when something really great happens to me, I like to wait two weeks before I tell anyone about it,…
— Demetri Martin
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In my opinion, what changed the situation eventually - and, of course, it took a lot of time to change…
— John Hume
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Her family had of late been exceedingly fluctuating. For many years of her life she had had two sons; but…
— Jane Austen
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In my local newspaper, they had this advert: 'please look after your neighbours in the cold weather'. I live next…
— Jack Dee
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For a fortnight nobody at all emailed me, or posted a follow-up. Doesn't anyone care, I thought? It turned out…
— Graham Nelson
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Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it.…
— Eamon de Valera
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In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.
— Joseph Chamberlain
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In London, I've always lived within 10 miles of where I was born. You see, there is something called a…
— Peter Ackroyd
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I am fussy, about my diet and straining my voice. I know, sounds a bit over the top. But I'm…
— Katherine Jenkins
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