Quote

Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off.

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
Reflection
Kept
Sin
Longer
Courses
Pleasure
Evil
Thought
Yield

More quotes by Samuel Richardson

Image
Virtue only is the true beauty.
Samuel Richardson
Image
A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.
Samuel Richardson
Image
People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent.
Samuel Richardson
Image
Beauty is an accidental and transient good.
Samuel Richardson
Image
Those who respect age, deserve to live to be old, and to be respected themselves.
Samuel Richardson
Image
What a world is this! What is there in it desirable? The good we hope for so strangely mixed, that one knows not what to wish for!And one half of mankind tormenting the other, and being tormented themselves in tormenting!
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
A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.
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
Men are less forgiving than women.
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
She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.
Samuel Richardson
Image
Women's eyes are wanderers, and too often bring home guests that are very troublesome to them, and whom, once introduced, they cannot get out of the house.
Samuel Richardson
Image
Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.
Samuel Richardson
Image
Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.
Samuel Richardson
Image
What pleasure can those over-happy persons know, who, from their affluence and luxury, always eat before they are hungry and drink before they are thirsty?
Samuel Richardson
Image
A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.
Samuel Richardson
Image
A fop takes great pains to hang out a sign, by his dress, of what he has within.
Samuel Richardson
Image
The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
Samuel Richardson
Image
There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.
Samuel Richardson