Quotes by Samuel Richardson

"I know not my own heart if it be not absolutely free."
— Samuel Richardson
"Tired of myself longing for what I have not"
— Samuel Richardson
"Be sure don't let people's telling you, you are pretty, puff you up; for you did not make yourself, and so can have no praise due to you for it. It is virtue and goodness only, that make the true beauty."
— Samuel Richardson
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Samuel Richardson (baptised 19 August 1689 – 4 July 1761) was an English writer and printer known for three epistolary novels: Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (1740), Clarissa: Or the History of a Young L...