Frasi di Samuel Richardson

„"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.“

—  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.“

—  Samuel Richardson

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

—  Samuel Richardson, libro Pamela, o la virtù premiata

Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded

„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.“

—  Samuel Richardson, libro Pamela, o la virtù premiata

Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded

„Tired of myself longing for what I have not“

—  Samuel Richardson, libro Clarissa

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

„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, libro The History of Sir Charles Grandison

Vol. 4, letter 17.
Sir Charles Grandison (1753–1754)

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

—  Samuel Richardson, libro Clarissa

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

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

—  Samuel Richardson

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

—  Samuel Richardson, libro Pamela, o la virtù premiata

Page 332
Pamela (1740)

„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.“

—  Samuel Richardson, libro The History of Sir Charles Grandison

Vol. 6, letter 46.
Sir Charles Grandison (1753–1754)

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

—  Samuel Richardson, libro Pamela, o la virtù premiata

Page 312
Pamela (1740)

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

—  Samuel Richardson, libro Clarissa

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

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

—  Samuel Richardson, libro Clarissa

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

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

—  Samuel Richardson

Page 120.

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

—  Samuel Richardson, libro Clarissa

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

„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.“

—  Samuel Richardson, libro Clarissa

Vol. 2, p. 231; Letter 92.
Clarissa (1747–1748)

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

—  Samuel Richardson, libro The History of Sir Charles Grandison

Vol. 2, letter 3.
Sir Charles Grandison (1753–1754)

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

—  Samuel Richardson, libro The History of Sir Charles Grandison

Vol. 1, letter 11.
Sir Charles Grandison (1753–1754)

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

—  Samuel Richardson, libro Clarissa

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