Top 82 Quotes by Samuel Richardson

A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.

Calamity is the test of integrity.

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.

O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!

What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.

Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.

A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.

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.

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.