Samuel Richardson Quotes About Courtship

Quotes about: Courtship

• Reverence to a woman in courtship is less to be dispensed with, as, generally, there is but little of it shown afterwards.

  Samuel Richardson

  Men, Littles, Courtship

• Men know no medium: They will either, spaniel-like, fawn at your feet, or be ready to leap into your lap.

  Samuel Richardson

  Men, Feet, Fawns

  Samuel Richardson (1754). “The History of Sir Charles Grandison: In a Series of Letters Published from the Originals, by the Editor of Pamela and Clarissa. In Seven Volumes”, p.232

• Love is a blazing, crackling, green-wood flame, as much smoke as flame; friendship, married friendship particularly, is a steady,intense, comfortable fire. Love, in courtship, is friendship in hope; in matrimony, friendship upon proof.

  Samuel Richardson

  Friendship, Love Is, Flames

  Samuel Richardson (1804). “The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson ...: Selected from the Original Manuscripts, Bequeathed by Him to His Family, to which are Prefixed, a Biographical Account of that Author, and Observations on His Writings”, p.188

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