“The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.”
Source: The Rambler
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Famous Samuel Richardson Quotes
“Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.”
Source: Clarissa: Or, the History of a Young Lady. Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life. ... By Mr. Samuel Richardson. In Eight Volumes
“A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.”
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...
“The life of a good man was a continual warfare with his passions.”
Source: Clarissa Harlowe, or The History of a Young Lady - Complete
“Calamity is the test of integrity.”
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...
“Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.”
Source: The history of sir Charles Grandison, in a series of letters publ. by the editor of Pamela. To which is added A brief history of the treatment which the editor has met with from certain booksellers and printers in Dublin
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction
“A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.”
Source: Clarissa Harlowe, or The History of a Young Lady - Complete
“People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.”
Source: Clarissa; Or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life
“Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Richardson (Illustrated)
“Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.”
Source: Clarissa, or, The history of a young lady: comprehending the most important concerns of private life
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...
“Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.”
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...
“Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.”
Source: Clarissa; Or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life
Source: Clarissa; Or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life
“Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.”
Source: Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life : and Particularly Shewing the Distresses that May Attend the Misconduct Both of Parents and Children, in Relation to Marriage
“Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.”
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Richardson (Illustrated)
“Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.”
Source: Clarissa; Or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life
Source: Clarissa Harlowe, or The History of a Young Lady - Complete
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...
“Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.”
Source: Clarissa Harlowe V1: the history of a young lady
“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!”
Source: Pamela; or, Virtue rewarded
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...
Source: THE
Source: Clarissa; Or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life
“The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.”
Source: Clarissa; or, The history of a young lady
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction
Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes ...
“Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?”
Source: Works
Source: Clarissa Harlowe V: Samuel Richardson Collections
Source: Clarissa; Or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction
“I know not my own heart if it be not absolutely free.”
Source: The Novels of Samuel Richardson...
“Tired of myself longing for what I have not”
Source: Clarissa Or The History of a Young Lady : Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life; and Particularly Shewing the Distresses that May Attend the Misconduct Both of Parents and Children, in Relation to Marriage
Source: Pamela Volume 1: Samuel Richardson Collections
“Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.”
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...
“Those who respect age, deserve to live to be old, and to be respected themselves.”
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...