241 Quotes by Samuel Richardson

If she be a woman, and love me, I shall surely catch her once tripping: for love was ever a traitor to its harbourer: and Love within, and I without, she will be more than a woman, as the poet says, or I less than man, if I succeed not.

And what after all, is death?? 'Tis but a cessation from mortal life; 'tis but the finishing of an appointed course; the refreshing inn after a fatiguing journey; the end of a life of cares and troubles; and, if happy, the beginning of a life of immortal happiness.

Why should such an angel be plunged so low as into the vulgar offices of domestic life? Were she mine, I should hardly wish to see her a mother unless there were a kind of moral certainty that minds like hers could be propagated.

I will be a Friend to you, and you shall take care of my Linen

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

Love is not a volunteer thing.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

I know not my own heart if it be not absolutely free.

Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.