Famous quotes containing the words richardson and/or wrote:
“Necessity may well be called the mother of invention—but calamity is the test of integrity.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)
“He shall not die, by G—, cried my uncle Toby.
MThe ACCUSING SPIRIT which flew up to heaven’s chancery with the oath, blush’d as he gave it in;—and the RECORDING ANGEL as he wrote it down, dropp’d a tear upon the word, and blotted it out for ever.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)