Pamela Quotes

“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, Pamela

“I will be a Friend to you, and you shall take care of my Linen”
― Samuel Richardson, Pamela

“O how can wicked men seem so steady and untouched with such black hearts, while poor innocents stand like malefactors before them!”
― Samuel Richardson, Pamela

“...for my master, bad as I have thought him, is not half so bad as this woman.--To be sure she must be an atheist!”
― Samuel Richardson, Pamela

“I will bear any thing you can inflict upon me with Patience, even to the laying down of my Life, to shew my Obedience to you in other Cases; but I cannot be patient, I cannot be passive, when my Virtue is at Stake!”
― Samuel Richardson, Pamela

“This, I suppose, makes me such a sauce-box, and bold-face, and a creature, and all because I won't be a sauce-box and bold-face indeed.”
― Samuel Richardson, Pamela

“Well, but, Mrs. Jervis, said I, let me ask you, if he can stoop to like such a poor girl as me, as perhaps he may, (for I have read of things almost as strange, from great men to poor damsels,) What can it be for?—He may condescend, perhaps, to think I may be good enough for his harlot; and those things don't disgrace men that ruin poor women, as the world goes.”
― Samuel Richardson, Pamela

“Well, my story, surely, would furnish out a surprising kind of novel, if it were to be well told.”
― Samuel Richardson, Pamela

“What the deuse do we men go to school for? If our wits were equal to women's, we might spare much time and pains in our education: for nature teaches your sex, what, in a long course of labour and study, ours can hardly attain to.”
― Samuel Richardson, Pamela

“I hope, as he assures me, he was not guilty of Indecency; but have Reason to bless God, who, by disabling me in my Faculties, enabled me to preserve my Innocence; and when all my Strength would have signified nothing, magnified himself in my Weakness.”
― Samuel Richardson, Pamela

“Is it not strange, that Love borders so much upon Hate? But this wicked Love is not like the true virtuous Love, to be sure: That and Hatred must be as far off, as Light and Darkness. And how must this Hate have been increased, if he had met with a base Compliance, after his wicked Will had been gratify'd?”
― Samuel Richardson, Pamela

“Many a man has been ashamed of his wicked attempts, when he has been repulsed, that would never have been ashamed of them, had he succeeded.”
― Samuel Richardson, Pamela

“And pray, said I, walking on, how came I to be his Property? What Right has he in me, but such as a Thief may plead to stolen Goods?”
― Samuel Richardson, Pamela

“Why should the guiltless tremble so, when the guilty can possess their minds in peace?”
― Samuel Richardson, Pamela

“let me read over again that fearful letter of yours, that I may get it by heart, and with it feed my distress, and make calamity familiar to me.”
― Samuel Richardson, Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded

“They reflected a broader”
― Samuel Richardson, Pamela

“Il filosofo che contemplava il teschio di un re e quello di un povero, non vi ravvisò differenza.”
― Samuel Richardson, Pamela

“O the unparalleled wickedness, stratagems, and devices, of those who call themselves gentlemen, yet pervert the design of Providence, in giving them ample means to do good, to their own everlasting perdition, and the ruin of poor oppressed innocence!”
― Samuel Richardson, Pamela

“Chi dubita di se stesso di rado sbaglia.”
― Samuel Richardson, Pamela

“Il mondo forma i suoi giudizi sulle nostre azioni piuttosto dai fatti che da dove stia la ragione nei casi dubbi.”
― Samuel Richardson, Pamela

“Ma è certo, questo ve lo devo confessare, che non potrò mai pensare a nessun altro al mondo se non a lui! Presunzione! direte voi; e questo è. Ma l'amore, immagino, non è una cosa volontaria -l'amore, ho detto! Ma andiamo, io non spero: perlomeno non è, spero, andato così lontano da mettermi molto a disagio: poiché io non so come è venuto, né quando è iniziato, ma mi si è insinuato addosso strisciando, strisciando, come un ladro, e prima che sapessi di che si trattava, aveva l'aspetto dell'amore.”
― Samuel Richardson, Pamela

“La sciagurata ha troppi difetti di suo per tollerarne di simili in chiunque altro.”
― Samuel Richardson, Pamela

“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, Pamela