Top 70 Richard Steele Quotes (2024 Update)
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Richard Steele Quote: “I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.”

51. “I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.”

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Richard Steele Quote: “A favor well bestowed is almost as great an honor to him who confers it as to him who receives it.”

52. “A favor well bestowed is almost as great an honor to him who confers it as to him who receives it.”

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Richard Steele Quote: “Pleasure seizes the whole man who addicts himself to it, and will not give him leisure for any good office in life which contradicts the gayety of the present hour.”

53. “Pleasure seizes the whole man who addicts himself to it, and will not give him leisure for any good office in life which contradicts the gayety of the present hour.”

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Richard Steele Quote: “Conversation never sits easier upon us than when we now and then discharge ourselves in a symphony of laughter, which may not improperly be called the chorus of conversation.”

54. “Conversation never sits easier upon us than when we now and then discharge ourselves in a symphony of laughter, which may not improperly be called the chorus of conversation.”

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Richard Steele Quote: “It may be remarked in general, that the laugh of men of wit is for the most part but a feint, constrained kind of half-laugh, as such persons are never without some diffidence about them; but that of fools is the most honest, natural, open laugh in the world.”

55. “It may be remarked in general, that the laugh of men of wit is for the most part but a feint, constrained kind of half-laugh, as such persons are never without some diffidence about them; but that of fools is the most honest, natural, open laugh in the world.”

— Richard Steele

Richard Steele Quote: “Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.”

56. “Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.”

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Richard Steele Quote: “There can hardly, I believe, be imagined a more desirable pleasure than that of praise unmixed with any possibility of flattery.”

57. “There can hardly, I believe, be imagined a more desirable pleasure than that of praise unmixed with any possibility of flattery.”

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Richard Steele Quote: “You see, among men who are honored with the common appellation ogentleman, many contradictions to that character.”

58. “You see, among men who are honored with the common appellation ogentleman, many contradictions to that character.”

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Richard Steele Quote: “Readings is to the mind what exercice is to the body.”

59. “Readings is to the mind what exercice is to the body.”

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Richard Steele Quote: “It is to beoted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.”

60. “It is to beoted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.”

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Richard Steele Quote: “One common calamity makes men extremely affect each other, though they differ in every other particular.”

61. “One common calamity makes men extremely affect each other, though they differ in every other particular.”

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Richard Steele Quote: “How few there are who are furnished with abilities sufficient to recommend their actions to the admiration of the world, and distinguish themselves from the rest of mankind.”

62. “How few there are who are furnished with abilities sufficient to recommend their actions to the admiration of the world, and distinguish themselves from the rest of mankind.”

— Richard Steele

Richard Steele Quote: “A man cannot have an idea of perfection in another, which he was never sensible of in himself.”

63. “A man cannot have an idea of perfection in another, which he was never sensible of in himself.”

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Richard Steele Quote: “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.”

64. “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.”

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Richard Steele Quote: “There is hardly that person to be found who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense, than honesty and virtue.”

65. “There is hardly that person to be found who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense, than honesty and virtue.”

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Richard Steele Quote: “Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratifications.”

66. “Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratifications.”

— Richard Steele

Richard Steele Quote: “Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent.”

67. “Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent.”

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Richard Steele Quote: “Many take pleasure in spreading abroad the weakness of an exalted character.”

68. “Many take pleasure in spreading abroad the weakness of an exalted character.”

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Richard Steele Quote: “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.”

69. “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.”

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Richard Steele Quote: “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.”

70. “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.”

— Richard Steele

Richard Steele Quote: “A lie is troublesome, and sets a man’s invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.”

71. “A lie is troublesome, and sets a man’s invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.”

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Richard Steele Quote: “Though very troublesome to others, anger is most so to him that has it.”

72. “Though very troublesome to others, anger is most so to him that has it.”

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Richard Steele Quote: “When a man has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass.”

73. “When a man has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass.”

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