241 Quotes by Samuel Richardson

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

Over-niceness may be under-niceness.

Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?

The wisest among us is a fool in some things.

Women's eyes are wanderers, and too often bring home guests that are very troublesome to them, and whom, once introduced, they cannot get out of the house.

That cruelty which children are permitted to show to birds and other animals will most probably exert itself on their fellow creatures when at years of maturity.

We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.

Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace.

The thing you don't get looking at brochures and stats is what the school is really like,