Quote

People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent.

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
Repent
Hardly
Anger
Anything
Ever
People

More quotes by 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
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
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
What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.
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
The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.
Samuel Richardson
Image
The World is not enough used to this way of writing, to the moment. It knows not that in the minutiae lie often the unfoldings ofthe Story, as well as of the heart and judges of an action undecided, as if it were absolutely decided.
Samuel Richardson
Image
'Passion' a word which involves so many feelings. I feel it when we touch I feel it when we kiss I feel it when I look at you. For you are my passion my one true love.
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
Virtue only is the true beauty.
Samuel Richardson
Image
Twenty-four is a prudent age for women to marry at.
Samuel Richardson
Image
That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.
Samuel Richardson
Image
Over-niceness may be under-niceness.
Samuel Richardson
Image
Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.
Samuel Richardson
Image
Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.
Samuel Richardson
Image
Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our dislike.
Samuel Richardson
Image
The unhappy never want enemies.
Samuel Richardson
Image
Honesty is good sense, politeness, amiableness,--all in one.
Samuel Richardson
Image
The richest princes and the poorest beggars are to have one great and just judge at the last day who will not distinguish betweenthem according to their ranks when in life but according to the neglected opportunities afforded to each. How much greater then, as the opportunities were greater, must be the condemnation of the one than of the other?
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