Quote

Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.

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
Arrogant
Sorts
Pride
Dangerous
Spiritual

More quotes by Samuel Richardson

Image
A fop takes great pains to hang out a sign, by his dress, of what he has within.
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
Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
Samuel Richardson
Image
All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.
Samuel Richardson
Image
Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.
Samuel Richardson
Image
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
Image
Women's eyes are wanderers, and too often bring home guests that are very troublesome to them, and whom, once introduced, they cannot get out of the house.
Samuel Richardson
Image
What a world is this! What is there in it desirable? The good we hope for so strangely mixed, that one knows not what to wish for!And one half of mankind tormenting the other, and being tormented themselves in tormenting!
Samuel Richardson
Image
The readiness with which women are apt to forgive the men who have deceived other women and that inconsiderate notion of too many of them that a reformed rake makes the best husband, are great encouragements to vile men to continue their profligacy.
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
It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.
Samuel Richardson
Image
Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?
Samuel Richardson
Image
The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors.
Samuel Richardson
Image
Romances in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination, than to inform the judgment.
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
Men are less forgiving than women.
Samuel Richardson
Image
A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
Samuel Richardson
Image
To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
Samuel Richardson
Image
The wife of a self-admirer must expect a very cold and negligent husband.
Samuel Richardson
Image
The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.
Samuel Richardson