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
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A man may keep a woman, but not his estate.
A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.
Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.
As long as my property taxes are high, I have to raise rents or make adjustments.
She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.
If women would make themselves appear as elegant to an Husband, as they were desirous to appear to him while a Lover, the Rake, which all women love, would last longer in the Husband than it generally does.
Marriage is a state that is attended with so much care and trouble, that it is a kind of faulty indulgence and selfishness to livesingle, in order to avoid the difficulties it is attended with.
Though a censure lies against those who are poor and proud, yet is Pride sooner to be forgiven in a poor person than in a rich one; since in the latter it is insult and arrogance; in the former, it may be a defense against temptations to dishonesty; and, if manifested on proper occasions, may indicate a natural bravery of mind, which the frowns of fortune cannot depress.
Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.
From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.
All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.
Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.