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
lying men needs
A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.
music men violin
When a man is not disposed to hear music, there is not a more disagreeable sound in harmony than that of the violin.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
men ideas perfection
A man cannot have an idea of perfection in another, which he was never sensible of in himself.
men envy gains
A modest person seldom fails to gain the goodwill of those he converses with, because nobody envies a man who does not appear to be pleased with himself.
laughter men laughing
It may be remarked in general, that the laugh of men of wit is for the most part but a feint, constrained kind of half-laugh, as such persons are never without some diffidence about them; but that of fools is the most honest, natural, open laugh in the world.
character men common
You see, among men who are honored with the common appellation ogentleman, many contradictions to that character.
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.