Samuel Richardson
Born: 08-18-1689
Samuel Richardson was an influential 18th-century English novelist, best known for pioneering the epistolary novel format. Born in 1689, he gained fame with works like "Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded" and "Clarissa," which explore complex themes of morality and virtue. Richardson's innovative narrative style and detailed character development left a lasting impact on the evolution of the novel, securing his place as a key figure in literary history.
Book summaries for books written by Samuel Richardson
Quotes
She had an immense variety of conversation, and seemed to know perfectly well what she was saying, but yet with all her vivacity, she was neither noisy nor dull; far from the first, and when ever a thought came into her head, it sparkled in her words like the radiant rising sun
He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
I have always been admired for my ingenuity and punctuality.
What right have I to complain of Providence, while so many live who suffer a thousand times more than I do?
Infamy and neglect bring their reward at last; and it is often in the power of the aggrieved to give happiness by gratifying their revenge.
It is not easy to be a villain and a husband at the same time.
The sweetest and meekest of Martyrs borne down by a thousand insults and indignities!
Resignation, however, is a card seldom played but when no other can be put in. It is thought to show a noble fortitude in the mind that plays it: though, like the knave of clubs, the holder may be often the greatest loser by it.
That he is that melancholy character, an habitual Gamester; who, in his bosom, perhaps, has as many desperate doubts and fears to grapple with, as the other on the brink of the mad-house.
A little uncommon knowledge, how dangerous a thing it is to trust implicitly to professions of penitence and remorse!
Ill-manners in one's heart are the worst manners in the world.
I have the vanity to believe I deserve to be loved, and passionately loved, by an angel.