Quote

Tho' Beauty is generally the creature of fancy, yet are there some who will be Beauties in every eye.

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
Eye
Every
Beauties
Creature
Fancy
Generally
Creatures
Beauty

More quotes by Samuel Richardson

Image
Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.
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
We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.
Samuel Richardson
Image
Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.
Samuel Richardson
Image
Virtue only is the true beauty.
Samuel Richardson
Image
The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.
Samuel Richardson
Image
All that hoops are good for is to clean dirty shoes and keep fellows at a distance.
Samuel Richardson
Image
Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.
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
Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.
Samuel Richardson
Image
What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.
Samuel Richardson
Image
Calamity is the test of integrity.
Samuel Richardson
Image
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
Image
People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent.
Samuel Richardson
Image
We are all very ready to believe what we like.
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
What the unpenetrating world call Humanity, is often no more than a weak mind pitying itself.
Samuel Richardson
Image
What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.
Samuel Richardson
Image
Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
Samuel Richardson
Image
Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.
Samuel Richardson