Samuel Richardson
Samuel Richardson
Samuel Richardsonwas an 18th-century English writer and printer. He is best known for his three epistolary novels: Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded, Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Ladyand The History of Sir Charles Grandison. Richardson was an established printer and publisher for most of his life and printed almost 500 different works, including journals and magazines. He was also known to collaborate closely with the London bookseller Andrew Millar on several occasions...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth19 August 1689
Friendly satire may be compared to a fine lancet, which gently breathes a vein for health's sake.
Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.
The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.
A departure from the truth was hardly ever known to be a single one.
It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.
The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.
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.
He only who gave life has a power over it.
The grace that makes every grace amiable is humility.
There cannot be any great happiness in the married life except each in turn give up his or her own humors and lesser inclinations.
An honest heart is not to be trusted with itself in bad company.
Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.
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.
Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.