Quote

The woman who thinks meanly of herself is any man's purchase.

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
Woman
Women
Men
Thinking
Meanly
Purchase
Thinks

More quotes by Samuel Richardson

Image
What pity that Religion and Love, which heighten our relish for the things of both worlds, should ever run the human heart into enthusiasm, superstition, or uncharitableness!
Samuel Richardson
Image
We are all very ready to believe what we like.
Samuel Richardson
Image
Youth is rather to be pitied than envied by people in years since it is doomed to toil through the rugged road of life which the others have passed through, in search of happiness that is not to be met with in it and that, at the highest, can be compounded for only by the blessing of a contented mind.
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
Those who respect age, deserve to live to be old, and to be respected themselves.
Samuel Richardson
Image
Distresses, however heavy at the time, appear light, and even joyous, to the reflecting mind, when worthily overcome.
Samuel Richardson
Image
It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.
Samuel Richardson
Image
By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her.
Samuel Richardson
Image
The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.
Samuel Richardson
Image
Vast is the field of Science... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.
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
To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
Samuel Richardson
Image
The coyest maids make the fondest wives.
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
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
All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
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
Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.
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
Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.
Samuel Richardson