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
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.
ugly honest fortitude
Since our persons are not of our own making, when they are such as appear defective or uncomely, it is, methinks, an honest and laudable fortitude to dare to be ugly.
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.
laughter symphony may
Conversation never sits easier upon us than when we now and then discharge ourselves in a symphony of laughter, which may not improperly be called the chorus of conversation.
health self support
Since we cannot promise our selves constant health, let us endeavour at such temper as may be our best support in the decay of it.
art knows
He that has sense knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it.
men purpose pleasure
Pleasure, when it is a man's chief purpose, disappoints itself; and the constant application to it palls the faculty of enjoying it.
honor favors wells
A favor well bestowed is almost as great an honor to him who confers it as to him who receives 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.
anger troublesome
Though very troublesome to others, anger is most so to him that has it.
fall men secret
It is a secret known but to few, yet of no small use in the conduct of life, that when you fall into a man's conversation, the first thing you should consider is, whether he has a greater inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him.
men faults conversation
It is an impertinent and unreasonable fault in conversation for one man to take up all the discourse.
men world flattery
The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly any signification of their thoughts.
husband faithful littles
A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband.