Top 15 Samuel Richardson Quotes

I know not my own heart if it be not absolutely free.

Tired of myself longing for what I have not

Be sure don't let people's telling you, you are pretty, puff you up; for you did not make yourself, and so can have no praise due to you for it. It is virtue and goodness only, that make the true beauty.

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.

By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep; nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her.

I will be a Friend to you, and you shall take care of my Linen

Familiarity destroys reverence.

You know not the value of the heart you have insulted... You, sir, I thank you, have lowered my fortunes: but, I bless God, that my mind is not sunk with my fortunes. It is, on the contrary, raised above fortune, and above you[.]

My heart and my hand shall never be separated.

O how can wicked men seem so steady and untouched with such black hearts, while poor innocents stand like malefactors before them!

Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.

The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.

...for my master, bad as I have thought him, is not half so bad as this woman. — To be sure she must be an atheist!

Love gratified is love satisfied,
and love satisfied is indifference begun

For love must be a very foolish thing to look back upon, when it has brought persons born to affluence into indigence, and laid a generous mind under obligation and dependence.