Quotes from Samuel Richardson

Whom we fear more than love, we are not far from hating.

An acknowledged love sanctifies every little freedom; and little freedoms beget great ones.

The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.

A departure from the truth was hardly ever known to be a single one.

Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.

Platonic love is platonic nonsense.

Love is not a volunteer thing.

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.

By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep; nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her.

What pity that Religion and Love, which heighten our relish for the things of both worlds, should ever run the human heart into enthusiasm, superstition, or uncharitableness!

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.

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

Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.

Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.

How true is the observation that unrequited love turns to deepest hate.

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

The unhappy never want enemies.

There is a good and a bad light in which every thing that befalls us may be taken. If the human mind will busy itself to make theworst of every disagreeable occurrence, it will never want woe.

Women who have had no lovers, or having had one, two or three, have not found a husband, have perhaps rather had a miss than a loss, as men go.

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

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

Marriage is a state that is attended with so much care and trouble, that it is a kind of faulty indulgence and selfishness to livesingle, in order to avoid the difficulties it is attended with.

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.

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