Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
In all Works of This, and of the Dramatic Kind, STORY, or AMUSEMENT, should be considered as little more than the Vehicle to the more necessary INSTRUCTION.
Samuel Richardson
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
Novelist
Writer
S. Richardson
Kind
Dramatic
Considered
Necessary
Works
Story
Stories
Amusement
Littles
Vehicle
Little
Instruction
More quotes by Samuel Richardson
Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit.
Samuel Richardson
The life of a good man was a continual warfare with his passions.
Samuel Richardson
The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.
Samuel Richardson
The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.
Samuel Richardson
Friendly satire may be compared to a fine lancet, which gently breathes a vein for health's sake.
Samuel Richardson
She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.
Samuel Richardson
It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.
Samuel Richardson
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
Platonic love is platonic nonsense.
Samuel Richardson
O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!
Samuel Richardson
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
Over-niceness may be under-niceness.
Samuel Richardson
People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.
Samuel Richardson
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
Those who respect age, deserve to live to be old, and to be respected themselves.
Samuel Richardson
From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.
Samuel Richardson
Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.
Samuel Richardson
What pity that Religion and Love, which heighten our relish for the things of both worlds, should ever run the human heart into enthusiasm, superstition, or uncharitableness!
Samuel Richardson
Beauty is an accidental and transient good.
Samuel Richardson
As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.
Samuel Richardson
