Frasi di Samuel Richardson

“Una mano generalmente sul petto, l'altra che regge un bastone da passeggio su cui si appoggia da sotto le falde del cappotto in modo che gli possa servire impercettibilmente da sostegno quando è colto da improvvisi tremori o sussulti o mancanti di cui è assai frequentemente preda… I passanti immaginano che guardi diritto davanti a sé ma osserva tutto ciò che si muove al suo fianco senza girare il corto collo; quasi mai si gira indietro… con il suo passo regolare e uguale sembra quasi camminare furtivamente piuttosto che percorrere la sua strada.”

“"La penna" è gelosa di altra compagnia. Si aspetta, posso dire, di avere tutta l'attenzione dello scrittore e ognuno spinge lo scrittore a toglierla.”

“La sciagurata ha troppi difetti di suo per tollerarne di simili in chiunque altro.”

“La mia anima ha la stessa importanza dell'anima di una principessa, anche se come rango io mi trovo alla pari del più umile schiavo.”

“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.”