Samuel Richardson Quotes

Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.
Samuel Richardson

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.
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Makes, Ugly, Face

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.
Samuel Richardson

Good, Humble, Lord

Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.
Samuel Richardson

Nothing, Please, Dislike

We are all very ready to believe what we like.
Samuel Richardson

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.
Samuel Richardson

Love, Women, Men

Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.
Samuel Richardson

Love, Women, Often

A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.
Samuel Richardson

Mother, Husband, Wife

A man may keep a woman, but not his estate.
Samuel Richardson

Woman, May, Keep

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
Samuel Richardson

Hope, Lover, Seldom

All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.
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Different, Childhood, Manhood

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.
Samuel Richardson

Happiness, Future, Child

From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.
Samuel Richardson

Humor, Women, Hopes

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.
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Great, Made, Persons

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.
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Above, Nowadays, Lasts

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.
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Education, Society, Children

It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.
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Thought, Insincere, Perverse

It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.
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Person, May, Another

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.
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Marriage, Woman, Single

Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.
Samuel Richardson

Love, Marriage, Before

Love is not a volunteer thing.
Samuel Richardson

Love, Volunteer

Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.
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Humor, Said, Married

Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.
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Men, Wife, Afraid

Nothing dries sooner than tears.
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Nothing, Tears, Dries

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.
Samuel Richardson

Nature, Good, Nothing

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Biography

Nationality: English

Born: August 19, 1689

Died: July 4, 1761

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