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
Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.
All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.
As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.
From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.
Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.
Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.
Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.
All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.
Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.
The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.
Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.
Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.
A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.