Quotations From SAMUEL RICHARDSON

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• 101.

  Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.

  Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), British novelist. First edition, London (1753-1754). Harriet Byron, in Sir Charles Grandison, vol. 1, letter 12, Oxford University Press (1972, repr. 1986).
• 102.

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

  Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), British novelist. First edition, London (1753-1754). Harriet Byron, in Sir Charles Grandison, vol. 1, letter 12, Oxford University Press (1972, repr. 1986).
• 103.

  The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.

  Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), British novelist. First edition, London (1753-1754). Henrietta Shirley, in Sir Charles Grandison, vol. 6, letter 46, Oxford University Press (1972, repr. 1986).
• 104.

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

  Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), British novelist. First edition, London (1753-1754). Lady D., in Sir Charles Grandison, vol. 2, letter 5, Oxford University Press (1972, repr. 1986).
  
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• 105.

  The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.

  Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), British novelist. Third edition, London (1751). Lovelace in Clarissa, vol. 4, p. 275, AMS Press (1990).
• 106.

  All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.

  Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), British novelist. Third edition, London (1751). Lovelace, in Clarissa, vol. 4, p. 263, AMS Press (1990).
  
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• 107.

  Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.

  Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), British novelist. Third edition, London (1751). Lovelace, in Clarissa, vol. 7, p. 141, AMS Press (1990).
• 108.

  Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.

  Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), British novelist. Third edition, London (1751). Lovelace, in Clarissa, vol. 6, p. 52, AMS Press (1990).
  
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• 109.

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

  Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), British novelist. Third edition, London (1751). Lovelace, in Clarissa, vol. 8, p. 152, AMS Press (1990).
  
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• 110.

  People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.

  Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), British novelist. Third edition, London (1751). Lovelace, in Clarissa, vol. 2, p. 177, AMS Press (1990).
  
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