Samuel Richardson Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)
Samuel Richardson quotes and sayings page 3 (novelist). Here's quote # 21 through 30 out of the 82 we have.
“Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.”
“The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.”
“The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master.”
“Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.”
“Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.”
“Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.”
“Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.”
“Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.”
“All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.”
“Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.”
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