Samuel Richardson Quotes - Page 5

What pleasure can those over-happy persons know, who, from their affluence and luxury, always eat before they are hungry and drink before they are thirsty?

Nothing can be more wounding to a spirit not ungenerous, than a generous forgiveness.

A departure from the truth was hardly ever known to be a single one.

We have nothing to do, but to choose what is right, to be steady in the pursuit of it, and leave the issue to Providence.

Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.

Of what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the occasion, by propagating false honor, false glory, and false religion?

Virtue only is the true beauty.

Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.

A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.

The person who is worthiest to live, is fittest to die.

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.

Those who doubt themselves most generally err least.

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

The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.

We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.

Men know no medium: They will either, spaniel-like, fawn at your feet, or be ready to leap into your lap.

I never knew a man who deserved to be thought well of for his morals who had a slight opinion of our Sex in general.

The eye is the casement at which the heart generally looks out. Many a woman who will not show herself at the door, has tipt the sly, the intelligible wink from the window.

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

I know not my own heart if it be not absolutely free.

Romances in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination, than to inform the judgment.

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

But let not those worthy young women, who may think themselves destined to a single life, repine over-much at their lot; since, possibly, if they have had no lovers, or having had one, two, or three, have not found a husband, they have had rather a miss than a loss, as men go.

The seeds of Death are sown in us when we begin to live, and grow up till, like rampant weeds, they choak the tender flower of life.

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.