What did Samuel Richardson mean by: Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife. - Samuel Richardson Novelist · England Copy
+ We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary. Feraz Zeid, January 10, 2024January 10, 2024, Samuel Richardson, Be Good, Goodness, Temptation, 0 - Samuel Richardson Novelist · England
+ Nothing dries sooner than tears. Feraz Zeid, September 12, 2023December 26, 2023, Samuel Richardson, Tears, 0 - Samuel Richardson Novelist · England
+ An acknowledged love sanctifies every little freedom; and little freedoms beget great ones. Feraz Zeid, January 10, 2024January 10, 2024, Samuel Richardson, Temptation, 0 - Samuel Richardson Novelist · England
+ Too liberal self-accusations are generally but so many traps for acquittal with applause. Feraz Zeid, January 10, 2024January 10, 2024, Samuel Richardson, Accusation, Applause, Self, 0 - Samuel Richardson Novelist · England
+ Over-niceness may be under-niceness. Feraz Zeid, July 1, 2023December 12, 2023, Samuel Richardson, 0 - Samuel Richardson Novelist · England
+ Rakes are more suspicious than honest men. Feraz Zeid, June 16, 2023December 12, 2023, Samuel Richardson, Honest, 0 - Samuel Richardson Novelist · England
+ O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else! Feraz Zeid, January 10, 2024January 10, 2024, Samuel Richardson, Doing Good, Envy, Rich, 0 - Samuel Richardson Novelist · England
+ The wife of a self-admirer must expect a very cold and negligent husband. Feraz Zeid, January 10, 2024January 10, 2024, Samuel Richardson, Husband, Self, Wife, 0 - Samuel Richardson Novelist · England
I already have a wife who is too much for me.. she is my art, and my works are my children. - Michelangelo Artist · Italy
A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire. - Jean Giraudoux Playwright · France
My wife holds the kite strings that let me go ‘weeeeeee’, then she reels me back in. - Jeff Bridges Actor · USA
I’m not capable of having an affair. You can ask my wife. I’m not physically capable. - Jeremy Clarkson Television presenter · England
After my mistress was dead, I lived most comfortably, my master having a great affection for me. - William Lilly
It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one. - William Makepeace Thackeray Author · India
