Samuel Richardson Quotations | Page 2

What honest man would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?

Good men must be affectionate men.

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

By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep; nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her.

Men are less forgiving than women.

What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.

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.

The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.

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.

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