Samuel Richardson Quotes About Human Nature

Quotes about: Human Nature

• Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

  Samuel Richardson

  Human Nature, Disposition, Humans

• Whom we fear more than love, we are not far from hating.

  Samuel Richardson

  Fear, Hate, Hatred

  Samuel Richardson (1862). “Clarissa; Or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprenhending the Most ...”, p.19

• What a world is this! What is there in it desirable? The good we hope for so strangely mixed, that one knows not what to wish for!And one half of mankind tormenting the other, and being tormented themselves in tormenting!

  Samuel Richardson

  Life, Wish, Half

  Samuel Richardson (2014). “Clarissa Harlowe, or The History of a Young Lady - Complete”, p.288, Simon and Schuster

• When we reflect upon the cruelties daily practised upon such of the animal creation as are given us for food, or which we ensnarefor our diversion, we shall be obliged to own that there is more of the savage in human nature than we are aware of.

  Samuel Richardson

  Animal, Savages, Human Nature

  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.109

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