Quotations From SAMUEL RICHARDSON

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• 11.

  Nothing can be more wounding than a generous forgiveness.

  Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), British novelist. Third edition, London (1751). Clarissa, in Clarissa, vol. 6, p. 382, AMS Press (1990).
• 12.

  Twenty-four is a prudent age for women to marry at.

  Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), British novelist. First edition, London (1753-1754). Sir Realigned Meredith, in Sir Charles Grandison, vol. 1, letter 9, Oxford University Press (1972, repr. 1986).
  
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• 13.

  Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.

  Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), British novelist. Third edition, London (1751). Clarissa, in Clarissa, vol. 2, p. 179, AMS Press (1990).
  
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• 14.

  Those who will bear much, shall have much to bear.

  Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), British novelist. Third edition, London (1751). Clarissa, in Clarissa, vol. 1, p. 126, AMS Press (1990).
• 15.

  Women who have had no lovers, or having had one, two or three, have not found a husband, have perhaps rather had a miss than a loss, as men go.

  Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), British novelist. First edition, London (1753-1754). Harriet Byron, in Sir Charles Grandison, vol. 2, letter 2, Oxford University Press (1972, repr. 1986).
  
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• 16.

  Good men must be affectionate men.

  Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), British novelist. First edition, London (1753-1754). Harriet Byron, in Sir Charles Grandison, vol. 4, letter 2, Oxford University Press (1972, repr. 1986).
• 17.

  What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.

  Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), British novelist. First edition, London (1753-1754). Harriet Byron, in Sir Charles Grandison, vol. 1, letter 11, Oxford University Press (1972, repr. 1986).
  
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• 18.

  Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

  Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), British novelist. First edition, London (1753-1754). Harriet Byron, in Sir Charles Grandison, vol. 1, letter 11, Oxford University Press (1972, repr. 1986).
• 19.

  Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.

  Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), British novelist. First edition, London (1753-1754). Marchese della Poretta (the General), in Sir Charles Grandison, vol. 3, letter 27, Oxford University Press (1972, repr. 1986).
  
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• 20.

  Every thing is pretty that is young.

  Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), British novelist. First edition, London (1740). Mr. B., in Pamela, vol. 1, letter 23, Riverside (1971).