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 before marriage is absolutely necessary.
By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep; nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her.
A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.
Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.
Love is not a volunteer thing.
Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.
Love is a blazing, crackling, green-wood flame, as much smoke as flame; friendship, married friendship particularly, is a steady,intense, comfortable fire. Love, in courtship, is friendship in hope; in matrimony, friendship upon proof.
Platonic love is platonic nonsense.
Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.
Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.
Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.
Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.
The thing you don't get looking at brochures and stats is what the school is really like,