Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.
Samuel Richardson
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
Novelist
Writer
S. Richardson
Little
People
Hatred
Angry
Question
Called
Understanding
Sense
Littles
More quotes by Samuel Richardson
A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.
Samuel Richardson
Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.
Samuel Richardson
I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.
Samuel Richardson
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
Be sure don't let people's telling you, you are pretty, puff you up for you did not make yourself, and so can have no praise due to you for it. It is virtue and goodness only, that make the true beauty.
Samuel Richardson
The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.
Samuel Richardson
O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!
Samuel Richardson
What pleasure can those over-happy persons know, who, from their affluence and luxury, always eat before they are hungry and drink before they are thirsty?
Samuel Richardson
Distresses, however heavy at the time, appear light, and even joyous, to the reflecting mind, when worthily overcome.
Samuel Richardson
Superstitious notions propagated in infancy are hardly ever totally eradicate, not even in minds grown strong enough to despise the like credulous folly in others.
Samuel Richardson
Tis certain that Morality is an indispensable Requisite of true Religion, and there can be none without it. But it would become the Pride and Ignorance of Pagans only, to magnify it, as the Whole of what is necessary.
Samuel Richardson
A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.
Samuel Richardson
What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.
Samuel Richardson
The wife of a self-admirer must expect a very cold and negligent husband.
Samuel Richardson
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
The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.
Samuel Richardson
A feeling heart is a blessing that no one, who has it, would be without and it is a moral security of innocence since the heart that is able to partake of the distress of another, cannot wilfully give it.
Samuel Richardson
From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.
Samuel Richardson
A fop takes great pains to hang out a sign, by his dress, of what he has within.
Samuel Richardson
Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?
Samuel Richardson
