List of Samuel Richardson Quotes

Let A Man Do What He Will By A Single Woman, The World Is Encouragingly Apt To Think Marriage A Sufficient Amends.

Those Who Respect Age, Deserve To Live To Be Old, And To Be Respected Themselves.

The World Is Not Enough Used To This Way Of Writing, To The Moment. It Knows Not That In The Minutiae Lie Often The Unfoldings Ofthe Story, As Well As Of The Heart; And Judges Of An Action Undecided, As If It Were Absolutely Decided.

Be Sure Don't Let People's Telling You, You Are Pretty, Puff You Up; For You Did Not Make Yourself, And So Can Have No Praise Due To You For It. It Is Virtue And Goodness Only, That Make The True Beauty.

Tired Of Myself Longing For What I Have Not

The English, The Plain English, Of The Politest Address Of A Gentleman To A Lady Is, I Am Now, Dear Madam, Your Humble Servant: Pray Be So Good As To Let Me Be Your Lord And Master.

Hope Is The Cordial That Keeps Life From Stagnating.

Of What Violences, Murders, Depredations, Have Not The Epic Poets, From All Antiquity, Been The Occasion, By Propagating False Honor, False Glory, And False Religion?

Women's Eyes Are Wanderers, And Too Often Bring Home Guests That Are Very Troublesome To Them, And Whom, Once Introduced, They Cannot Get Out Of The House.

The Person Who Will Bear Much Shall Have Much To Bear, All The World Through.

Parents Sometimes Make Not Those Allowances For Youth, Which, When Young, They Wished To Be Made For Themselves.

She Who Is More Ashamed Of Dishonesty Than Of Poverty Will Not Be Easily Overcome.