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Top 70 Richard Steele Quotes (2024 Update)

Richard Steele Quote: “Modesty never rages, never murmurs, never pouts; when it is ill-treated, it pines, it beseeches, it languishes.”
Richard Steele Quote: “Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.”
Richard Steele Quote: “Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.”
Richard Steele Quote: “Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy.”
Richard Steele Quote: “A Daughter: The companion, the friend, and the confidant of her mother, and the object of a pleasure something like the love between the angels to her father.”
Richard Steele Quote: “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.”
Richard Steele Quote: “I have often lamented that we cannot close our ears with as much ease as which we close our eyes.”
Richard Steele Quote: “Nothing is more silly than the pleasure some people take in “speaking their minds.” A man of this make will say a rude thing for the mere pleasure of saying it, when an opposite behavior, full as innocent, might have preserved his friend, or made his fortune.”
Richard Steele Quote: “People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives.”
Richard Steele Quote: “Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.”
Richard Steele Quote: “A modest person seldom fails to gain the goodwill of those he converses with, because nobody envies a man who does not appear to be pleased with himself.”
Richard Steele Quote: “There are so few who can grow old with a good grace.”
Richard Steele Quote: “Pleasure, when it is a man’s chief purpose, disappoints itself; and the constant application to it palls the faculty of enjoying it.”
Richard Steele Quote: “Pride destroys all symmetry and grace, and affectation is a more terrible enemy to fine faces than the small-pox.”
Richard Steele Quote: “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.”
Richard Steele Quote: “I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception.”
Richard Steele Quote: “Though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behaviour; to love her was a liberal education.”
Richard Steele Quote: “The person, whom you favored with a loan, if he be a good man, will think himself in your debt after he has paid you.”
Richard Steele Quote: “Violins are the lively, forward, importunate wits, that distinguish themselves by the flourishes of imagination, sharpness of repartee, glances of satire, and bear away the upper part in every consort.”
Richard Steele Quote: “Since we cannot promise our selves constant health, let us endeavour at such temper as may be our best support in the decay of it.”
Richard Steele Quote: “That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.”
Richard Steele Quote: “Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.”
Richard Steele Quote: “It has been a sort of maxim, that the greatest art is to conceal art; but I know not how, among some people we meet with, their greatest cunning is to appear cunning.”
Richard Steele Quote: “Whoever would be wise should read the Proverbs; whoever would be holy should read the Psalms.”
Richard Steele Quote: “Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible.”
Richard Steele Quote: “The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.”
Richard Steele Quote: “He that has sense knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it.”
Richard Steele Quote: “Will. Honeycomb calls these over-offended ladies the outrageously virtuous.”
Richard Steele Quote: “There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy.”
Richard Steele Quote: “I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker.”
Richard Steele Quote: “A man advanced in years that thinks fit to look back on his former life, and calls that only life which was passed with satisfaction and enjoyment, excluding all parts which were not pleasant to him, will find himself very young, if not in infancy.”
Richard Steele Quote: “A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.”
Richard Steele Quote: “No woman is capable of being beautiful who is not incapable of being false.”
Richard Steele Quote: “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.”
Richard Steele Quote: “Whether a pretty woman grants or withholds her favors, she always likes to be asked for them.”
Richard Steele Quote: “Since our persons are not of our own making, when they are such as appear defective or uncomely, it is, methinks, an honest and laudable fortitude to dare to be ugly.”
Richard Steele Quote: “A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband.”
Richard Steele Quote: “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 Quote: “I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me.”
Richard Steele Quote: “It is a very melancholy reflection that men are usually so weak that it is absolutely necessary for them to know sorrow and pain to be in their right senses.”
Richard Steele Quote: “The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men’s words are hardly any signification of their thoughts.”
Richard Steele Quote: “It is an impertinent and unreasonable fault in conversation for one man to take up all the discourse.”
Richard Steele Quote: “When a man is not disposed to hear music, there is not a more disagreeable sound in harmony than that of the violin.”
Richard Steele Quote: “A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript.”
Richard Steele Quote: “And I pray mark how he begins: he sets not up trophies to himself, but triumphs in his God – “I will love thee, O Lord, my strength.” As the love of God is the beginning of all our mercies, so love to God should be the end and effect of them all. As the stream leads us to the spring, so all the gifts of God must lead us to the giver of them.”
Richard Steele Quote: “The insupportable labor of doing nothing.”
Richard Steele Quote: “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.”
Richard Steele Quote: “It 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.”
Richard Steele Quote: “The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his own life.”
Richard Steele Quote: “Such is the weakness of our nature, that when men are a little exalted in their condition they immediately conceive they have additional senses, and their capacities enlarged not only above other men, but above human comprehension itself.”
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