Top 25 Quotes by Samuel Richardson of 190 - Page 8

Things we wish to be true are apt to gain too ready credit with us.

Things we wish to be true are apt to gain too ready credit with us.

Wish, Credit, Gains

Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.19

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

Samuel Richardson

Ill Health, Made, Petulance

"A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction".

The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.

Samuel Richardson

Thinking, Delight, World

Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.392

I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.

Samuel Richardson

Laughing, Trying, May

Samuel Richardson (1784). “Clarissa: Or, the History of a Young Lady. Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life. ... By Mr. Samuel Richardson. In Eight Volumes”, p.1091

That cruelty which children are permitted to show to birds and other animals will most probably exert itself on their fellow creatures when at years of maturity.

Samuel Richardson

Children, Maturity, Animal

Samuel Richardson (1980). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint

A good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be.

Samuel Richardson

Religious, Men, Religion

Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.

Samuel Richardson

Parent, Youth, Sometimes

That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.

Samuel Richardson

Husband, Rakes, Dangerous

Samuel Richardson (1784). “Clarissa: Or, the History of a Young Lady. Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life. ... By Mr. Samuel Richardson. In Eight Volumes”, p.2

Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off.

Samuel Richardson

Reflection, Yield, Evil

To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.

Samuel Richardson

Clergymen, Compassionate, Virtuous

Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.13

Honesty is good sense, politeness, amiableness,--all in one.

Samuel Richardson

Honesty, Politeness, Good Sense

Samuel Richardson (1810). “The History of Sir Charles Grandison: In a Series of Letters”, p.386

If a woman knows a man to be a libertine, yet will, without scruple, give him her company, he will think half the ceremony between them is over; and will probably only want an opportunity to make her repent of her confidence in him.

Samuel Richardson

Opportunity, Men, Thinking

Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.4

The richest princes and the poorest beggars are to have one great and just judge at the last day who will not distinguish betweenthem according to their ranks when in life but according to the neglected opportunities afforded to each. How much greater then, as the opportunities were greater, must be the condemnation of the one than of the other?

Samuel Richardson

Opportunity, Judging, Lasts

Samuel Richardson (1980). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint

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.

Samuel Richardson

Pride, Men, Self

Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.13