Samuel Richardson Wife Quotations

Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.

Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.

A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.

If women would make themselves appear as elegant to an Husband, as they were desirous to appear to him while a Lover, the Rake, which all women love, would last longer in the Husband than it generally does.

The coyest maids make the fondest wives.

The wife of a self-admirer must expect a very cold and negligent husband.