241 Quotes by Samuel Richardson

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

Love is a blazing, crackling, green-wood flame, as much smoke as flame; friendship, married friendship particularly, is a steady,intense, comfortable fire. Love, in courtship, is friendship in hope; in matrimony, friendship upon proof.

Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.

Youth is rather to be pitied than envied by people in years since it is doomed to toil through the rugged road of life which the others have passed through, in search of happiness that is not to be met with in it and that, at the highest, can be compounded for only by the blessing of a contented mind.

Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.

He only who gave life has a power over it.

Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.

Rakes are more suspicious than honest men.

There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.