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
Samuel Richardson quotes about
For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.
All that hoops are good for is to clean dirty shoes and keep fellows at a distance.
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.
It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.
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.
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.
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.
It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.
Nothing dries sooner than tears.