3 Samuel Richardson Quotes on Marriage

Samuel Richardson quotes on marriage

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

14. 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.

18. When his story of Pamela first came out, some extracts got into the public papers, and used by that means to find their way down as far as Preston in Lancashire, where my aunt who told me the story then resided. One morning as she rose, the bells were set singing and the flag was observed to fly from the great steeple. She rang her bell and inquired the reason of these rejoicings, when her maid came in bursting with joy, and said, 'Why, madam, poor Pamela's married at last; the news came down to us in this morning's paper.'