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
pain failure reflection
It is a very melancholy reflection that men are usually so weak that it is absolutely necessary for them to know sorrow and pain to be in their right senses.
men thinking years
A man advanced in years that thinks fit to look back on his former life, and calls that only life which was passed with satisfaction and enjoyment, excluding all parts which were not pleasant to him, will find himself very young, if not in infancy.
men thinking good-man
The person, whom you favored with a loan, if he be a good man, will think himself in your debt after he has paid you.
grace age youth
There are so few who can grow old with a good grace.
beauty beautiful incapable
No woman is capable of being beautiful who is not incapable of being false.
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.
virtue virtuous offended
Will. Honeycomb calls these over-offended ladies the outrageously virtuous.
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.
home wine two
I was going home two hours ago, but was met by Mr. Griffith, who has kept me ever since. . . . I will come within a pint of wine.
design dull paper
It is to beoted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.
believe flattery praise
There can hardly, I believe, be imagined a more desirable pleasure than that of praise unmixed with any possibility of flattery.
healthy age fool
A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.
sympathy men common
One common calamity makes men extremely affect each other, though they differ in every other particular
fool pity flattered
The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.