241 Quotes by Samuel Richardson

The grace that makes every grace amiable is humility.

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

Is it not strange, that Love borders so much upon Hate? But this wicked Love is not like the true virtuous Love, to be sure: That and Hatred must be as far off, as Light and Darkness. And how must this Hate have been increased, if he had met with a base Compliance, after his wicked Will had been gratify’d?

That she thought me the prettiest creature she ever beheld. – Creature was her word – We are all creatures, ’tis true: But I think I never was more displeased with the sound of the word Creature, than I was from Lady Anne.

A widow’s refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.

By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep; nor, what’s still worse, love any woman in the world but her.

This, I suppose, makes me such a sauce-box, and bold-face, and a creature, and all because I won’t be a sauce-box and bold-face indeed.

And pray, said I, walking on, how came I to be his Property? What Right has he in me, but such as a Thief may plead to stolen Goods?

The woman who thinks meanly of herself is any man’s purchase.