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
Angry men make themselves beds of nettles.
What honest man would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?
Good men must be affectionate men.
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.
Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.
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.
Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.
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.
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.
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.
The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.
Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.