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Writer, Politician
About Richard Steele
Sir Richard Steele (baptized 12 March 1672 β 1 September 1729) was an Irish writer and politician, famous for co-founding The Spectator magazine with his friend Joseph Addison.
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βThe insupportable labour of doing nothing.β
βA woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript.β
βA little in drink, but at all times yr faithful husband.β
βWill Honeycomb calls these over-offended ladies the outrageously virtuous.β
βI am come to a tavern alone to eat a steak, after which I shall return to the office.β
βOf all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent.β
βAmong all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.β
βA favor well bestowed is almost as great an honor to him who confers it as to him who receives it.β
βNo man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experienceβ¦β
βI 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.β
βThe finest woman in nature should not detain me an hour from you; but you must sometimes suffer the rivalship of the wisest men.β
βThough her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behaviour; to love her is a liberal education.β
βWe were in some little time fixed in our seats, and sat with that dislike which people not too good-natured usually conceive of each other at first sight.β
βWhen 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.β
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Richard Steele on Posterity 2 quotes
βWe are always doing, says he, something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something for us.β
Richard Steele on Modesty 2 quotes
βModesty never rages, never murmurs, never pouts; when it is ill-treated, it pines, it beseeches, it languishes.β
Richard Steele on Mail
βA woman seldom writes her Mind, but in her Postscript.β
Richard Steele on Travel
β'Tis nothing when a fancied scene's in view To skip from Covent Garden to Peru.β
Richard Steele on Perfection
βA man cannot have an idea of perfection in another, which he was never sensible of in himself.β
Richard Steele on Passion
Richard Steele on Character
βYet though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behaviour; and to love her is a liberal education.β
Richard Steele on Equality
βEquality is the life of conversation; and he is as much out who assumes to himself any part above another, as he who considers himself below the rest of the society.β
Richard Steele on Wealth
βThe man is mechanically turned, and made for gettingβ¦. It was very prettily said that we may learn the little value of fortune by the persons on whom Heaven is pleased to bestow itβ
Richard Steele on Conversation
βIt 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.β
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Richard Steele on Women 2 quotes
βWill Honeycomb calls these over-offended ladies the outrageously virtuous.β
Richard Steele on Virgil
βI came home a little later than usual the other night; and, not finding myself inclined to sleep, I took up Virgil, to divert me till I should be more disposed to rest. He is the author whom I always choose on such occasions; no one writing in so divine, so harmonious, nor so equal a strain, which leaves the mind composed and softened into an agreeable melancholy; the temper in which, of all others, I choose to close the day.β
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βIf there is a verity in wine, according to the old adage, what an amiable-natured character Dick's must have been! In proportion as he took in wine he overflowed with kindness.β
About Richard Steele
Sir Richard Steele (baptized 12 March 1672 β 1 September 1729) was an Irish writer and politician, famous for co-founding The Spectator magazine with his friend Joseph Addison.