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
wise would-be psalms
Whoever would be wise should read the Proverbs; whoever would be holy should read the Psalms.
simplicity imitation hardest
Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy.
beauty modesty wit
Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
pain giving speech
It is a wonderful thing that so many, and they not reckoned absurd, shall entertain those with whom they converse by giving them the history of their pains and aches and imagine such narrations their quota of conversation.
looks morality look-up
I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me
writing mind
A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript
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.
men add fool
Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.