Quotes from Samuel Richardson

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

O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!

Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.

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

Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.

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

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.

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

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.

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.

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

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.

Calamity is the test of integrity.

Good men must be affectionate men.

I know not my own heart if it be not absolutely free.

Tired of myself longing for what I have not

Be sure don't let people's telling you, you are pretty, puff you up; for you did not make yourself, and so can have no praise due to you for it. It is virtue and goodness only, that make the true beauty.

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

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

I will be a Friend to you, and you shall take care of my Linen

Familiarity destroys reverence.

My heart and my hand shall never be separated.

You know not the value of the heart you have insulted... You, sir, I thank you, have lowered my fortunes: but, I bless God, that my mind is not sunk with my fortunes. It is, on the contrary, raised above fortune, and above you[.]