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  • Writer
  • 1689 - 1761
  • 200 quotes

Samuel Richardson, a writer (1689 - 1761), is quoted 200 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Men, Love, Heart and Love Is.

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Love is not a volunteer thing.

The unhappy never want enemies.

Virtue only is the true beauty.

Nothing dries sooner than tears.

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

Good men must be affectionate men.

Men are less forgiving than women.

Calamity is the test of integrity.

Platonic love is platonic nonsense.

Every thing is pretty that is young.

Over-niceness may be under-niceness.

The coyest maids make the fondest wives.

Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace.

Rakes are more suspicious than honest men.

He only who gave life has a power over it.

Angry men make themselves beds of nettles.

Tired of myself longing for what I have not

A man may keep a woman, but not his estate.

Beauty is an accidental and transient good.

The wisest among us is a fool in some things.

Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.

Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.

Wicked words are the prelude to wicked deeds.

Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.

We are all very ready to believe what we like.

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

Air and manners are more expressive than words.

Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.

Those who will bear much, shall have much to bear.

It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.

Twenty-four is a prudent age for women to marry at.

Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.

The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.

Those who doubt themselves most generally err least.

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

The grace that makes every grace amiable is humility.

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

Who would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?

Whom we fear more than love, we are not far from hating.

The most innocent heart is generally the most credulous.

Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.

There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.

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

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

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

The woman who thinks meanly of herself is any man's purchase.

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

Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.

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