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
disturbed passage street trading
They that live in a trading street are not disturbed at the passage of carts
features force handsome help speech witty woman
No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more than she can be witty only by the help of speech
british-dramatist mind
Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body.
imagination musical violin
Violins are the lively, forward, importunate wits, that distinguish themselves by the flourishes of imagination, sharpness of repartee, glances of satire, and bear away the upper part in every consort.
modesty rage ill
Modesty never rages, never murmurs, never pouts; when it is ill-treated, it pines, it beseeches, it languishes.
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.