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
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.
friendship dresses matter
Mutual good humor is a dress we ought to appear in wherever we meet, and we should make no mention of what concerns ourselves, without it be of matters wherein our friends ought to rejoice.
men hypocrisy quality
It is the duty of a great person so to demean himself, as that whatever endowments he may have, he may appear to value himself upon no qualities but such as any man may arrive at.
pretty-woman likes favors
Whether a pretty woman grants or withholds her favors, she always likes to be asked for them.
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.
wise would-be psalms
Whoever would be wise should read the Proverbs; whoever would be holy should read the Psalms.
men faults conversation
It is an impertinent and unreasonable fault in conversation for one man to take up all the discourse.
reading mind body
Readings is to the mind what exercice is to the body.
heart men self
It is a certain sign of an ill heart to be inclined to defamation. They who are harmless and innocent can have no gratification that way; but it ever arises from a neglect of what is laudable in a man's self.
character weakness pleasure
Many take pleasure in spreading abroad the weakness of an exalted character.
men heaven may
The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may learn the little value of fortune by the persons on whom Heaven is pleased to bestow it.
men order honor
The world will never be in any manner of order or tranquility until men are firmly convinced that conscience, honor and credit are all in one interest