“What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.”
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 can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.”
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, ...
“It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.”
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, ...
“Romances in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination, than to inform the judgment.”
“By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep; nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her.”
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
“Men are less forgiving than women.”
“What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.”
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, ...
“But let not those worthy young women, who may think themselves destined to a single life, repine over-much at their lot; since, possibly, if they have had no lovers, or having had one, two, or three, have not found a husband, they have had rather a miss than a loss, as men go.”
“The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.”
Source: Clarissa; Or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprenhending the Most ...
“I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.”
Source: Clarissa: Or, the History of a Young Lady. Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life. ... By Mr. Samuel Richardson. In Eight Volumes
“Nothing can be more wounding to a spirit not ungenerous, than a generous forgiveness.”
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
“Good men must be affectionate men.”
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, ...
“Vast is the field of Science... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.”
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
“Who would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?”
“Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.”
Source: Virtue rewarded: in a series of letters, from a beautiful young lady to her parents. A narrative
“People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.”
Source: Clarissa Harlowe, or The History of a Young Lady - Complete
“To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!”
“Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.”
“The first step in achieving prosperity and wealth is learning to appreciate what you already have.”
“'Passion' a word which involves so many feelings. I feel it when we touch; I feel it when we kiss; I feel it when I look at you. For you are my passion; my one true love.”
“Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.”
Source: The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson: Author of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison
“...for my master, bad as I have thought him, is not half so bad as this woman.-To be sure she must be an atheist!”
Source: Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded
“Angry men make themselves beds of nettles.”
Source: Clarissa; Or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprenhending the Most ...
“There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.”
Source: The History of Clarissa Harlowe: In a Series of Letters
“Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.”
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, ...
“Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.”
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 plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.”
“Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.”
“For tutors, although they may make youth learned, do not always make them virtuous.”
“Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.”
“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?”
“It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.”
Source: Clarissa; Or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life
“Nothing dries sooner than tears.”
Source: Letters and passages restored from the original manuscripts of the History of Clarissa. To which is subjoined, a collection of such of the moral and instructive sentiments ... contained in the History, as are presumed to be of general use and service ... Published for the sake of doing justice to the purchasers of the first two editions of that work
“Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.”
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
“That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.”
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 feeling heart is a blessing that no one, who has it, would be without; and it is a moral security of innocence; since the heart that is able to partake of the distress of another, cannot wilfully give it.”
“A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.”
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction
“To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.”
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, ...
“We are all very ready to believe what we like.”
Source: Clarissa; Or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life
“The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.”
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, ...
“There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.”
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction
“Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.”
“There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.”
Source: Letters and passages restored from the original manuscripts of the History of Clarissa. To which is subjoined, a collection of such of the moral and instructive sentiments ... contained in the History, as are presumed to be of general use and service ... Published for the sake of doing justice to the purchasers of the first two editions of that work
“Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.”
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 Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.”
Source: Selected letters of Samuel Richardson
“The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.”
Source: The History of Sir Charles Grandison: In a Series of Letters
“The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.”
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction
