Richard Steele Quotes

"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
(Related: Sex, Commerce, Man, Sense, Woman)

"A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband."
- Richard Steele
(Related: Husband)

"Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip."
- Richard Steele
(Related: Destruction, Fire, Gossip, Tongue)

"There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy."
- Richard Steele
(Related: Pleasure, Praise)

"That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart."
- Richard Steele
(Related: Heart, Man, Old)

"Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body."
- Richard Steele
(Related: Body, Mind, Reading)

"Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable."
- Richard Steele
(Related: Beauty, Modesty, Nothing, Wit)

"To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude."
- Richard Steele
(Related: Solitude)

"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
(Related: Life, Affection, Heaven, Hell, State)

"It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it."
- Richard Steele
(Related: Design)

"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
(Related: Act, Care, Pursuit)

"I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me."
- Richard Steele
(Related: Morality)

"I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him."
- Richard Steele
(Related: Character)

"The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered."
- Richard Steele
(Related: Fool, Pity)