Quote

Platonic love is platonic nonsense.

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
Platonic
Nonsense
Love

More quotes by Samuel Richardson

Image
People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.
Samuel Richardson
Image
I never knew a man who deserved to be thought well of for his morals who had a slight opinion of our Sex in general.
Samuel Richardson
Image
Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off.
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
'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
We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.
Samuel Richardson
Image
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
Image
Tho' Beauty is generally the creature of fancy, yet are there some who will be Beauties in every eye.
Samuel Richardson
Image
Air and manners are more expressive than words.
Samuel Richardson
Image
Good men must be affectionate men.
Samuel Richardson
Image
The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.
Samuel Richardson
Image
The woman who thinks meanly of herself is any man's purchase.
Samuel Richardson
Image
Honesty is good sense, politeness, amiableness,--all in one.
Samuel Richardson
Image
All angry persons are to be treated, by the prudent, as children.
Samuel Richardson
Image
Tired of myself longing for what I have not
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
Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.
Samuel Richardson
Image
When we reflect upon the cruelties daily practised upon such of the animal creation as are given us for food, or which we ensnarefor our diversion, we shall be obliged to own that there is more of the savage in human nature than we are aware of.
Samuel Richardson
Image
The readiness with which women are apt to forgive the men who have deceived other women and that inconsiderate notion of too many of them that a reformed rake makes the best husband, are great encouragements to vile men to continue their profligacy.
Samuel Richardson
Image
Friendly satire may be compared to a fine lancet, which gently breathes a vein for health's sake.
Samuel Richardson