Samuel Richardson

Novelist, 1689-1761

Cited as Richardson. — 14 quotations

When he ails ever so little . . . he is so peevish.

I fear your girl will grow as proud as anything.

There are professions, among the men, no more favorable to these studies than the common avocations of women.

An earnest disavowal of fear often proceeds from fear.

Can a fugitive daughter enjoy herself while her parents are in tear?

No one . . . should glory in his prosperity.

I shall be obliged to hoarsen my voice.

I fear nothing . . . that devil carnate or incarnate can fairly do.

Latterly Milton was short and thick.

They were both determined to turn over a new leaf.

Air and manner are more expressive than words.

Childbed matronizes the giddiest spirits.

A clumsy person makes his ungracefulness more ungraceful by tawdriness of dress.

The unhappy never want enemies.