241 Quotes by Samuel Richardson

A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.

Wicked words are the prelude to wicked deeds.

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.

An acknowledged love sanctifies every little freedom; and little freedoms beget great ones.

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

A prudent person, having to do with a designing one, will always distrust most when appearances are fairest.

A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.

From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.

All angry persons are to be treated, by the prudent, as children.