Quote

All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.

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
Sorts
Pursuit
Size
Proportioned
Childhood
Sizes
Views
Pursuits
Different
Fatherhood
Years
Trifles
Manhood

More quotes by Samuel Richardson

Image
Things we wish to be true are apt to gain too ready credit with us.
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
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
Image
I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light burden heavy.
Samuel Richardson
Image
The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.
Samuel Richardson
Image
All women, from the countess to the cook-maid, are put into high good humor with themselves when a man is taken with them at firstsight. And be they ever so plain, they will find twenty good reasons to defend the judgment of such a man.
Samuel Richardson
Image
I never knew a man who deserved to be thought well of for his morals who had a slight opinion of our Sex in general.
Samuel Richardson
Image
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
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
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
Romances in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination, than to inform the judgment.
Samuel Richardson
Image
Marriage is a state that is attended with so much care and trouble, that it is a kind of faulty indulgence and selfishness to livesingle, in order to avoid the difficulties it is attended with.
Samuel Richardson
Image
The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.
Samuel Richardson
Image
There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.
Samuel Richardson
Image
Beauty is an accidental and transient good.
Samuel Richardson
Image
To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
Samuel Richardson
Image
The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.
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
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
Tho' Beauty is generally the creature of fancy, yet are there some who will be Beauties in every eye.
Samuel Richardson