Samuel Richardson Quotes

Samuel Richardson was an English writer and printer. He is best known for his three epistolary novels: Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded , Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady and The History of Sir Charles Grandison . Richardson was an established printer and publisher for most of his life and printed almost 500 different works, including journals and magazines. He was also known to collaborate closely with the London bookseller Andrew Millar on several occasions.At a very early age, Richardson was apprenticed to a printer, whose daughter he eventually married. He lost his first wife along with their five sons, and eventually remarried. With his second wife, he had four daughters who reached adulthood, but no male heirs to continue running the printing business. While his print shop slowly ran down, he wrote his first novel at the age of 51 and immediately became one of the more popular and admired writers of his time.

Richardson knew leading figures in 18th-century England, including Samuel Johnson and Sarah Fielding. He was also close friends with the eminent physician and behmenist George Cheyne and with the theologian and writer William Law, whose books he printed. At the special request of William Law, Richardson printed various poems by John Byrom. In the London literary world, he was a rival of Henry Fielding, and the two responded to each other's literary styles in their own novels.

His name was on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, a list established by the Pope containing the names of books that Catholics were not allowed to read. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. August 1689 – 4. July 1761   •   Other names Сэмюэл Ричардсон, ساموئل ریچاردسون
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Clarissa
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Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded
Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded
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Famous Samuel Richardson Quotes

“Tired of myself longing for what I have not”

Source: Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady

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

Vol. 1, p. 44; Letter 10.
Clarissa (1747–1748)

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

Source: Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady

Samuel Richardson Quotes

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

Vol. 2, p. 478; Letter 135.
Clarissa (1747–1748)

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

Page 120.
The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson with Lady Bradshaigh (1804)

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

Vol. 2, p. 452; Letter 126.
Clarissa (1747–1748)

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

Vol. 1, p. 5; Preface.
Clarissa (1747–1748)

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

Vol. 1, p. 286; Letter 43.
Clarissa (1747–1748)

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