Richardson

Famous quotes containing the word richardson:

“Fielding being mentioned, Johnson exclaimed, “he was a blockhead ....” BOSWELL. “Will you not allow, Sir, that he draws very natural pictures of human life?” JOHNSON. “Why, Sir, it is of very low life. Richardson used to say, that had he not known who Fielding was, he should have believed he was an ostler.””
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

“It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)

“Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)