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
'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!
Angry men make themselves beds of nettles.
There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.
Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.
What honest man would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?
Good men must be affectionate men.
Romances, in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination than to inform the judgment.
By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep; nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her.
Men are less forgiving than women.
What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.
Women who have had no lovers, or having had one, two or three, have not found a husband, have perhaps rather had a miss than a loss, as men go.
The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.
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.