241 Quotes by Samuel Richardson

...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!

Friendly satire may be compared to a fine lancet, which gently breathes a vein for health's sake.

Angry men make themselves beds of nettles.

The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors.

Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.

An honest heart is not to be trusted with itself in bad company.

What honest man would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?

Old men, imagining themselves under obligation to young paramours, seldom keep any thing from their knowledge.

Good men must be affectionate men.