Самуэль Ричардсон цитаты

„Я не знаю своего собственного сердца, если оно не совсем свободно.“

„Берегите время: это ткань, из которой соткана жизнь.“

„Ничто не может быть более вредным не щедрой души, чем щедрое прощение.“

„Те, кому нужно меньше всего, обычно самые занятые люди в мире.“

„Это опасное, но слишком распространенное мнение, что реформированные грабли делают лучшего мужа.“

„Радость часто бывает матерью многочисленных глупостей.“

„Наружность и манеры более выразительны, чем слова.“

„Обширная область науки ... чем больше человек знает, тем больше он узнает, что он должен знать.“

„Удовольствия сильных получают слезы бедных.“

„Человек, который многого будет нести, должен будет многое пережить по всему миру.“

„Мой Мастер сказал в другой раз, что те, кто сомневается больше всего, всегда ошибаются меньше всего.“

„Любовь удовлетворена, удовлетворена ли любовь - и удовлетворена ли любовь, началось безразличие.“

„Ручка почти так же красивое орудие в женских пальцах, как игла.“

“There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.”

“The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.”

“I know not my own heart if it be not absolutely free.”

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

“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.”

“Of what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the occasion, by propagating false honour, false glory, and false religion?”

“Nothing can be more wounding to a spirit not ungenerous, than a generous forgiveness.”

“The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.”

“I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.”

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

“O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! — I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!”

“The pen is almost as pretty an implement in a woman's fingers, as a needle.”

“Love gratified, is love satisfied — and love satisfied, is indifference begun.”

“My Master said, on another Occasion, that those who doubt most, always erred least.”

“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.”

“Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.”

“That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.”

“The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.”

“Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.”

“Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.”