Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
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
Lovers
Hope
Widow
Exclude
Widows
Explicit
Refusal
Seldom
Lover
More quotes by Samuel Richardson
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
The unhappy never want enemies.
Samuel Richardson
A good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be.
Samuel Richardson
The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.
Samuel Richardson
Distresses, however heavy at the time, appear light, and even joyous, to the reflecting mind, when worthily overcome.
Samuel Richardson
Romances in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination, than to inform the judgment.
Samuel Richardson
What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.
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
What the unpenetrating world call Humanity, is often no more than a weak mind pitying itself.
Samuel Richardson
Honesty is good sense, politeness, amiableness,--all in one.
Samuel Richardson
Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off.
Samuel Richardson
A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.
Samuel Richardson
In all Works of This, and of the Dramatic Kind, STORY, or AMUSEMENT, should be considered as little more than the Vehicle to the more necessary INSTRUCTION.
Samuel Richardson
The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors.
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
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
Men are less forgiving than women.
Samuel Richardson
Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
Samuel Richardson
Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.
Samuel Richardson
Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.
Samuel Richardson