Samuel Richardson Quotes

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Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
Samuel Richardson

Great, Words, Eyes

Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.
Samuel Richardson

Love, Through, Draw

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.
Samuel Richardson

Heart, Wife, Often

The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.
Samuel Richardson

Life, Evening, Different

It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.
Samuel Richardson

Find, Others, Ourselves

Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
Samuel Richardson

Men, Wife, Mistress

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, perhaps, too much humbled.
Samuel Richardson

Person, Humility, Cannot

A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.
Samuel Richardson

Beautiful, Woman, Her

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.
Samuel Richardson

Marriage, Friendship, Time

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.
Samuel Richardson

Angry, Sense, Question

Calamity is the test of integrity.
Samuel Richardson

Integrity, Test, Calamity

Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.
Samuel Richardson

Sense, Scholar, Presume

Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.
Samuel Richardson

Busy, Generally

A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.
Samuel Richardson

Judge, Game, Play

All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
Samuel Richardson

Human, May, Excellence

The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.
Samuel Richardson

Life, Good, Warfare

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.
Samuel Richardson

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.
Samuel Richardson

Power, Wish, Less

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
Samuel Richardson

Work, Sports, Children

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.
Samuel Richardson

Women, Men, Human

For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.
Samuel Richardson

Mind, Human, Grow

Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.
Samuel Richardson

Life, Hope, Keeps

Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.
Samuel Richardson

Love, Satisfied, Begun

Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.
Samuel Richardson

Love, May, Happen

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
Samuel Richardson

Mother, Integrity, May

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Biography

Nationality: English

Born: August 19, 1689

Died: July 4, 1761

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