Famous Quotes

Quotes by Samuel Richardson

• A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
• 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.
• Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.
• From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.
• Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.
• If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.
• Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.
• Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.
• 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 by mutual participation.
• Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.
• Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
• Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.
• O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!
• Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.
• Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.
• The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.
• The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.
• The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
• 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 ought to be.
• Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.
• Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
• Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.
• 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 the men do.
• Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.
• Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.