37 Samuel Richardson Quotes for You to Enjoy

Samuel Richardson

English Novelist

Born: Aug 19, 1689

Died: Jul 4, 1761

Good Love Man Men Will Women

Related authors: Aldous Huxley Charles Dickens E. M. Forster J. R. R. Tolkien Thomas Hardy William Golding William Makepeace Thackeray

The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions. Samuel Richardson

Life Good Man Good Man Passions His Warfare

Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation. Samuel Richardson

Friendship Time Happy Marriage Cares State Our Pleasures Mutual Dividing Highest Participation Same Same Time Them Doubles

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity. Samuel Richardson

Integrity Mother Invention Calamity Well Test May Necessity

People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with. Samuel Richardson

People Ought Angels Like Deal Act Who

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

Hope Lover Seldom Exclude Refusal Explicit Widow

Calamity is the test of integrity. Samuel Richardson

Integrity Calamity Test

Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun. Samuel Richardson

Love Satisfied Indifference Begun Gratified

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor. Samuel Richardson

Tears Pleasures Obtained Poor Mighty

Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer? Samuel Richardson

Alexander Would Madman Had He Been Much Homer

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

People Humor Married Married People Said Hear Quick Either Should Ill

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

Good Great Envy Power Rich Nothing Else Doing Doing Good Godlike

Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense. Samuel Richardson

Man Sense Every Presume Scholar Necessarily

What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition? Samuel Richardson

Man Ambition Likelihood Who

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

Better Mother Wife Husband Visitors Generally Had His Than

Love is not a volunteer thing. Samuel Richardson

Love Love Is Volunteer Thing

Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor. Samuel Richardson

Difficult Favor More Than Fix Person Much Prejudices Deeper

Those who will bear much, shall have much to bear. Samuel Richardson

Will Those Bear Shall Much Who

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious. Samuel Richardson

Ugly Face Sorrow Makes Odious

There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves. Samuel Richardson

Life Others Ourselves Would Would-Be Feel Supporting Were Quite

There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action. Samuel Richardson

Pride Action Above Doing Being Dishonorable Base

It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves. Samuel Richardson

Fault Others Easier Ourselves Find Than Much

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