241 Quotes by Samuel Richardson

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.

The first vice of the first woman was curiosity, and it runs through the whole sex.

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.

A man who insults the modesty of a woman, as good as tells her that he has seen something in her conduct that warranted his presumption.

A fop takes great pains to hang out a sign, by his dress, of what he has within.

The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.

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

Beauty is an accidental and transient good.

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.