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
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.
simplicity imitation hardest
Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy.
beauty modesty wit
Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
anger troublesome
Though very troublesome to others, anger is most so to him that has 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.
honor favors wells
A favor well bestowed is almost as great an honor to him who confers it as to him who receives it.
husband faithful littles
A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband.
mind care endless
It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do
writing mind
A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript
looks morality look-up
I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me
receiving praise pleasure
There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy