Цитаты из книги Clarissa

Любовь должна казаться великою глупостію, когда ввергаетъ великодушныя сердца въ жестокую необходимость обязательствъ и зависимости.

God sends meat, the Devil cooks.

Difficult situations, you know, my dear young lady, are the tests not only of prudence but of virtue.

Любовь к деньгам — корень всякого зла

Generous minds are always of kin.

самые смирнѣйшіе люди бываютъ иногда упрямѣе прочихъ, когда видятъ себя преслѣдуемыхъ съ жестокостію и несправедливостію.

Посторонней зритель всегда лучше судитъ объ игрѣ, нежели тѣ которые играютъ

Mutual obligation is the very essence and soul of the social and commercial life.

Great faults and great virtues are often found in the same person.

Men of talent are sooner to be convinced by short sentences than by long preachments, because the short sentences drive themselves into the heart and stay there, while long discourses, though ever so good, tire the attention; and one good thing drives out another, and so on till all is forgotten.

A handful of good life is better than a whole bushel of learning.

Children when little, make their parents fools; when great, mad.

Marriage is the highest state of friendship: if happy, it lessens our cares, by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by a mutual participation.