Quote

The life of a good man was a continual warfare with his passions.

Samuel Richardson

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
Novelist
Writer
S. Richardson
Life
Continual
Warfare
Passions
Passion
Good
Men

More quotes by Samuel Richardson

Image
If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.
Samuel Richardson
Image
The seeds of Death are sown in us when we begin to live, and grow up till, like rampant weeds, they choak the tender flower of life.
Samuel Richardson
Image
Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.
Samuel Richardson
Image
What the unpenetrating world call Humanity, is often no more than a weak mind pitying itself.
Samuel Richardson
Image
Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.
Samuel Richardson
Image
There cannot be any great happiness in the married life except each in turn give up his or her own humors and lesser inclinations.
Samuel Richardson
Image
O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!
Samuel Richardson
Image
Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
Samuel Richardson
Image
A good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be.
Samuel Richardson
Image
The world, the wise world, that never is wrong itself, judges always by events. And if he should use me ill, then I shall be blamed for trusting him: if well, O then I did right, to be sure!--But how would my censurers act in my case, before the event justifies or condemns the action, is the question.
Samuel Richardson
Image
From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.
Samuel Richardson
Image
Those who respect age, deserve to live to be old, and to be respected themselves.
Samuel Richardson
Image
The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master.
Samuel Richardson
Image
Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.
Samuel Richardson
Image
Calamity is the test of integrity.
Samuel Richardson
Image
The eye is the casement at which the heart generally looks out. Many a woman who will not show herself at the door, has tipt the sly, the intelligible wink from the window.
Samuel Richardson
Image
It is a happy art to know when one has said enough. I would leave my hearers wishing me to say more rather than give them cause toshow, by their inattention, that I had said too much.
Samuel Richardson
Image
The wisest among us is a fool in some things.
Samuel Richardson
Image
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.
Samuel Richardson
Image
Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.
Samuel Richardson