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
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.
world action admiration
How few there are who are furnished with abilities sufficient to recommend their actions to the admiration of the world, and distinguish themselves from the rest of mankind.
pain giving speech
It is a wonderful thing that so many, and they not reckoned absurd, shall entertain those with whom they converse by giving them the history of their pains and aches and imagine such narrations their quota of conversation.
pretty-woman likes favors
Whether a pretty woman grants or withholds her favors, she always likes to be asked for them.
friendship dresses matter
Mutual good humor is a dress we ought to appear in wherever we meet, and we should make no mention of what concerns ourselves, without it be of matters wherein our friends ought to rejoice.
kindness men judging
The praise of an ignorant man is only good-will, and you should receive his kindness as he is a good neighbor in society, and not as a good judge of your actions in point of fame and reputation.
pain failure reflection
It is a very melancholy reflection that men are usually so weak that it is absolutely necessary for them to know sorrow and pain to be in their right senses.
beauty beautiful incapable
No woman is capable of being beautiful who is not incapable of being false.
healthy age fool
A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.
sympathy men common
One common calamity makes men extremely affect each other, though they differ in every other particular
marriage wedding heaven
The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life.
beauty modesty wit
Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
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.
husband faithful littles
A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband.