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
Nothing can be more wounding to a spirit not ungenerous, than a generous forgiveness.
Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.
Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.
The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
We are all very ready to believe what we like.
The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.
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.
Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.
There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.
Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.
The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.
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.
To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.