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
art knows
He that has sense knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it.
men purpose pleasure
Pleasure, when it is a man's chief purpose, disappoints itself; and the constant application to it palls the faculty of enjoying it.
honor favors wells
A favor well bestowed is almost as great an honor to him who confers it as to him who receives it.
silly men opposites
Nothing is more silly than the pleasure some people take in "speaking their minds." A man of this make will say a rude thing for the mere pleasure of saying it, when an opposite behavior, full as innocent, might have preserved his friend, or made his fortune.
anger troublesome
Though very troublesome to others, anger is most so to him that has it.
fall men secret
It is a secret known but to few, yet of no small use in the conduct of life, that when you fall into a man's conversation, the first thing you should consider is, whether he has a greater inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him.
men faults conversation
It is an impertinent and unreasonable fault in conversation for one man to take up all the discourse.
men world flattery
The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly any signification of their thoughts.
husband faithful littles
A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband.
affection glory human-life
Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent.
men ideas perfection
A man cannot have an idea of perfection in another, which he was never sensible of in himself.
modesty rage ill
Modesty never rages, never murmurs, never pouts; when it is ill-treated, it pines, it beseeches, it languishes.
men envy gains
A modest person seldom fails to gain the goodwill of those he converses with, because nobody envies a man who does not appear to be pleased with himself.
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.