Samuel Richardson
Samuel Richardson
Samuel Richardsonwas an 18th-century English writer and printer. He is best known for his three epistolary novels: Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded, Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Ladyand The History of Sir Charles Grandison. Richardson was an established printer and publisher for most of his life and printed almost 500 different works, including journals and magazines. He was also known to collaborate closely with the London bookseller Andrew Millar on several occasions...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth19 August 1689
A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.
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.
That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.
Nothing dries sooner than tears.
It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.
Of what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the occasion, by propagating false honor, false glory, and false religion?
Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.
Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.
Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.
There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.
Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.