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
Nonsense
Love
Platonic

More quotes by Samuel Richardson

Image
All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.
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
Friendly satire may be compared to a fine lancet, which gently breathes a vein for health's sake.
Samuel Richardson
Image
It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.
Samuel Richardson
Image
Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.
Samuel Richardson
Image
The life of a good man was a continual warfare with his passions.
Samuel Richardson
Image
Superstitious notions propagated in infancy are hardly ever totally eradicate, not even in minds grown strong enough to despise the like credulous folly in others.
Samuel Richardson
Image
From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.
Samuel Richardson
Image
Things we wish to be true are apt to gain too ready credit with us.
Samuel Richardson
Image
Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit.
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
Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.
Samuel Richardson
Image
The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.
Samuel Richardson
Image
There cannot be any great happiness in the married life except each in turn give up his or her own humors and lesser inclinations.
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
We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.
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
Distresses, however heavy at the time, appear light, and even joyous, to the reflecting mind, when worthily overcome.
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
The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors.
Samuel Richardson