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
The most innocent heart is generally the most credulous.
The wife of a self-admirer must expect a very cold and negligent husband.
The readiness with which women are apt to forgive the men who have deceived other women; and that inconsiderate notion of too many of them that a reformed rake makes the best husband, are great encouragements to vile men to continue their profligacy.
Too liberal self-accusations are generally but so many traps for acquittal with applause.
Every thing is pretty that is young.
An acknowledged love sanctifies every little freedom; and little freedoms beget great ones.
A prudent person, having to do with a designing one, will always distrust most when appearances are fairest.
All angry persons are to be treated, by the prudent, as children.
Tho' Beauty is generally the creature of fancy, yet are there some who will be Beauties in every eye.
The seeds of Death are sown in us when we begin to live, and grow up till, like rampant weeds, they choak the tender flower of life.
We all know by theory that there is no permanent happiness in this life: But the weight of the precept is not felt in the same manner as when it is confirmed to us by a heavy calamity.
Virtue only is the true beauty.
The woman who thinks meanly of herself is any man's purchase.
People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent.