Samuel Richardson Quotes About Husband

Quotes about: Husband

• To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!

  Samuel Richardson

  Husband, Choices, Rakes

• Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

  Samuel Richardson

  Beauty, Husband, Heart

• But let not those worthy young women, who may think themselves destined to a single life, repine over-much at their lot; since, possibly, if they have had no lovers, or having had one, two, or three, have not found a husband, they have had rather a miss than a loss, as men go.

  Samuel Richardson

  Husband, Loss, Men

  "The Novels of Samuel Richardson, Esq. Viz. Pamela, Clarissa Harlowe, and Sir Charles Grandison: In Three Volumes. To which is Prefixed, a Memoir of the Life of the Author".

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

  Samuel Richardson

  Husband, Rakes, Dangerous

  Samuel Richardson (1784). “Clarissa: Or, the History of a Young Lady. Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life. ... By Mr. Samuel Richardson. In Eight Volumes”, p.2

• 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.

  Samuel Richardson

  Husband, Men, Often Is

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

• The wife of a self-admirer must expect a very cold and negligent husband.

  Samuel Richardson

  Husband, Self, Wife

  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

• The readiness with which women are apt to forgive the men who have deceived other women; and that inconsiderate notion of too many of them that a reformed rake makes the best husband, are great encouragements to vile men to continue their profligacy.

  Samuel Richardson

  Encouragement, Husband, Forgiving

  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.2

• If women would make themselves appear as elegant to an Husband, as they were desirous to appear to him while a Lover, the Rake, which all women love, would last longer in the Husband than it generally does.

  Samuel Richardson

  Marriage, Husband, Wife

  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.115

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