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
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.
Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.
People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.
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.
...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!
There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.
Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.
What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.
Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.
The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.