Top 82 Quotes by Samuel Richardson

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.

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.

Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.

All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.

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.

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.

People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.

All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.