Famous quotes containing the words richardson and/or wrote:
“Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.”
—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)