Richard Steele
Richard Steele
Sir Richard Steelewas an Irish writer and politician, remembered as co-founder, with his friend Joseph Addison, of the magazine The Tatler...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionDramatist
virtue virtuous offended
Will. Honeycomb calls these over-offended ladies the outrageously virtuous.
design dull paper
It is to beoted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.
enemy praise commendation
Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.
laziness doing-nothing labor
The insupportable labor of doing nothing.
honesty reputation virtue
There is hardly that person to be found who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense, than honesty and virtue.
ugly honest fortitude
Since our persons are not of our own making, when they are such as appear defective or uncomely, it is, methinks, an honest and laudable fortitude to dare to be ugly.
pride grace enemy
Pride destroys all symmetry and grace, and affectation is a more terrible enemy to fine faces than the small-pox.
imagination musical violin
Violins are the lively, forward, importunate wits, that distinguish themselves by the flourishes of imagination, sharpness of repartee, glances of satire, and bear away the upper part in every consort.
music men violin
When a man is not disposed to hear music, there is not a more disagreeable sound in harmony than that of the violin.
laughter symphony may
Conversation never sits easier upon us than when we now and then discharge ourselves in a symphony of laughter, which may not improperly be called the chorus of conversation.
health self support
Since we cannot promise our selves constant health, let us endeavour at such temper as may be our best support in the decay of it.
affection glory human-life
Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent.
modesty rage ill
Modesty never rages, never murmurs, never pouts; when it is ill-treated, it pines, it beseeches, it languishes.
laughter men laughing
It may be remarked in general, that the laugh of men of wit is for the most part but a feint, constrained kind of half-laugh, as such persons are never without some diffidence about them; but that of fools is the most honest, natural, open laugh in the world.