Famous quotes containing the words richardson and/or wrote:
“Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)
“His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as punctilious as himself the correspondence ended only with death.”
—Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966)