Quote

It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.

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
Price
Taste
Every
Bribe
Shaping
Avarice

More quotes by Samuel Richardson

Image
Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off.
Samuel Richardson
Image
Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.
Samuel Richardson
Image
The grace that makes every grace amiable is humility.
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
The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors.
Samuel Richardson
Image
A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.
Samuel Richardson
Image
Things we wish to be true are apt to gain too ready credit with us.
Samuel Richardson
Image
Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.
Samuel Richardson
Image
Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.
Samuel Richardson
Image
All that hoops are good for is to clean dirty shoes and keep fellows at a distance.
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
Tis certain that Morality is an indispensable Requisite of true Religion, and there can be none without it. But it would become the Pride and Ignorance of Pagans only, to magnify it, as the Whole of what is necessary.
Samuel Richardson
Image
Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace.
Samuel Richardson
Image
It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.
Samuel Richardson
Image
A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.
Samuel Richardson
Image
To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
Samuel Richardson
Image
Calamity is the test of integrity.
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
Distresses, however heavy at the time, appear light, and even joyous, to the reflecting mind, when worthily overcome.
Samuel Richardson
Image
Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.
Samuel Richardson