241 Quotes by Samuel Richardson

Familiarity destroys reverence.

The tenderest and most generous minds, when harshly treated, become generally the most inflexible.

Many a man has been ashamed of his wicked attempts, when he has been repulsed, that would never have been ashamed of them, had he succeeded.

O how can wicked men seem so steady and untouched with such black hearts, while poor innocents stand like malefactors before them!

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

How true is the observation that unrequited love turns to deepest hate.

This, I suppose, makes me such a sauce-box, and bold-face, and a creature, and all because I won't be a sauce-box and bold-face indeed.

...for my master, bad as I have thought him, is not half so bad as this woman.--To be sure she must be an atheist!

But these great minds cannot avoid doing extraordinary things!