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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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.
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To behold her is an immediate check to loose behavior; to love her is a liberal education.
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It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.
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Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body.
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The truth of it is, the first rudiments of education are given very indiscreetly by most parents
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They that live in a trading street are not disturbed at the passage of carts
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I have often lamented that we cannot close our ears with as much ease as we can our eyes
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The conquest of passion gives ten times more happiness than we can reap from the gratification of it
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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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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.
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When a man is not disposed to hear music, there is not a more disagreeable sound in harmony than that of the violin.
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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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Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.