22 Quotations by Sir Richard Steele
- 1. A favor well bestowed is almost as great an honor to him who confers it as to him who receives it.
- 2. A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.
- 3. A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband.
- 4. Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
- 5. I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.
- 6. I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an except ...
- 7. Idleness is tThe insupportable labor of doing nothing.
- 8. It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.
- 9. Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
- 10. Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.
- 11. Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to hav ...
- 12. Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to hav ...
- 13. Simplicity of all things is the hardest to copy.
- 14. Simplicity of all things is the hardest to copy.
- 15. That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.
- 16. The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.
- 17. The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven ...
- 18. There is not a more useful man in the commonwealth than a good physician; and by consequence no wort ...
- 19. To behold her is an immediate check to loose behavior; to love her is a liberal education.
- 20. To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
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