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Richard Steele Quotes
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Type:
Dramatist Quotes
Category:
British Dramatist Quotes
Year of Birth:
1672
Date of Death:
September 1, 1729
Nationality:
British
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Richard Steele

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A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband.
Richard Steele

A Woman is naturally more helpless than the other Sex; and a Man of Honour and Sense should have this in his View in all Manner of Commerce with her.
Richard Steele

A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript.
Richard Steele

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
Richard Steele

I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.
Richard Steele

I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me.
Richard Steele

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.
Richard Steele

It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.
Richard Steele

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
Richard Steele

Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body.
Richard Steele

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.
Richard Steele

The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.
Richard Steele

The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life.
Richard Steele

There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy.
Richard Steele

To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude.
Richard Steele



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