Samuel Richardson Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• A feeling heart is a blessing that no one, who has it, would be without; and it is a moral security of innocence; since the heart that is able to partake of the distress of another, cannot wilfully give it.

  Samuel Richardson

  Heart, Blessing, Giving

  'The History of Sir Charles Grandison' (1754) vol. 3, letter 32

• There cannot be any great happiness in the married life except each in turn give up his or her own humors and lesser inclinations.

  Samuel Richardson

  Giving Up, Married, Matrimony

• If a woman knows a man to be a libertine, yet will, without scruple, give him her company, he will think half the ceremony between them is over; and will probably only want an opportunity to make her repent of her confidence in him.

  Samuel Richardson

  Opportunity, Men, Thinking

  Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.4

• An acquaintance with the muses, in the education of youth, contributes not a little to soften manners. It gives a delicate turn to the imagination and a polish to the mind.

  Samuel Richardson

  Education, Giving, Imagination

  Samuel Richardson (1980). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint

• Women love those best (whether men, women, or children) who give them most pain.

  Samuel Richardson

  Pain, Children, Women

  Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.192

• It is a happy art to know when one has said enough. I would leave my hearers wishing me to say more rather than give them cause toshow, by their inattention, that I had said too much.

  Samuel Richardson

  Art, Giving, Wish

• The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.

  Samuel Richardson

  Men, Differences, Giving

  Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.5

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