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
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
character thinking envy
I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him
inspirational-life passion people
People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives.
ambition pride vanity
Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible.
receiving praise pleasure
There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy
mind disease flattery
Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.
fire gossip tongue
Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
conquest gives happiness passion reap ten
The conquest of passion gives ten times more happiness than we can reap from the gratification of it
love behaviour checks
Though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behaviour; to love her was a liberal education.
lying men needs
A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.
men giving office
Pleasure seizes the whole man who addicts himself to it, and will not give him leisure for any good office in life which contradicts the gayety of the present hour.
inspirational men design
When a man has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass.
men vanity littles
Such is the weakness of our nature, that when men are a little exalted in their condition they immediately conceive they have additional senses, and their capacities enlarged not only above other men, but above human comprehension itself.
sex age youth
Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.