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
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No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more than she can be witty only by the help of speech
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They that live in a trading street are not disturbed at the passage of carts
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Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body.
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I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker.
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Will. Honeycomb calls these over-offended ladies the outrageously virtuous.
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Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.
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The insupportable labor of doing nothing.
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There is hardly that person to be found who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense, than honesty and virtue.
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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.
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Modesty never rages, never murmurs, never pouts; when it is ill-treated, it pines, it beseeches, it languishes.
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Whether a pretty woman grants or withholds her favors, she always likes to be asked for them.
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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.
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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.
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No woman is capable of being beautiful who is not incapable of being false.