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
A feeling heart is a blessing that no one, who has it, would be without; and it is a moral security of innocence; since the heart that is able to partake of the distress of another, cannot wilfully give it.
Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.
Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.
Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.
Of what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the occasion, by propagating false honor, false glory, and false religion?
It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.
Nothing dries sooner than tears.
Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.
That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.
The grace that makes every grace amiable is humility.
It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.
Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.
Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.
There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.