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.
home wine two
I was going home two hours ago, but was met by Mr. Griffith, who has kept me ever since. . . . I will come within a pint of wine.
design dull paper
It is to beoted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.
believe flattery praise
There can hardly, I believe, be imagined a more desirable pleasure than that of praise unmixed with any possibility of flattery.
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
fool pity flattered
The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.
men honor gentleman
Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratifications.
sex men views
A Woman is naturally more helpless than the other Sex; and a Man of Honour and Sense should have this in his View in all Manner of Commerce with her.
men hypocrisy quality
It is the duty of a great person so to demean himself, as that whatever endowments he may have, he may appear to value himself upon no qualities but such as any man may arrive at.
pretty-woman likes favors
Whether a pretty woman grants or withholds her favors, she always likes to be asked for them.
reading mind body
Readings is to the mind what exercice is to the body.
son men pleasure
The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his own life.
heart men self
It is a certain sign of an ill heart to be inclined to defamation. They who are harmless and innocent can have no gratification that way; but it ever arises from a neglect of what is laudable in a man's self.