Richard Steele famous quotes

04-17-2025

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

#Fire #Gossip #Tongue
People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives.
-- Richard Steele

#Inspirational Life #Passion #People
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

#Marriage #Wedding #Heaven
When a man has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass.
-- Richard Steele

#Inspirational #Men #Design
Will. Honeycomb calls these over-offended ladies the outrageously virtuous.
-- Richard Steele

#Virtue #Virtuous #Offended
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

#Men #Honor #Gentleman
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

#Love #Behaviour #Checks
I was going home two hours ago, but was met by Mr. Griffith, who has kept me ever since. . . . I will come within a pint of wine.
-- Richard Steele

#Home #Wine #Two
It is to beoted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.
-- Richard Steele

#Design #Dull #Paper
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

#Sex #Men #Views
There can hardly, I believe, be imagined a more desirable pleasure than that of praise unmixed with any possibility of flattery.
-- Richard Steele

#Believe #Flattery #Praise
A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.
-- Richard Steele

#Healthy #Age #Fool
One common calamity makes men extremely affect each other, though they differ in every other particular
-- Richard Steele

#Sympathy #Men #Common
The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.
-- Richard Steele

#Fool #Pity #Flattered
I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker, by three different lights, in his solitude, his afflictions, and his last moments.... [In these situations such people show themselves] in solitude, incapable or rapture or elevation, ... in distress, [with] a halter or a pistol the only refuge [they] can fly to, ... [and liable to conversion] at the approach of death.
-- Richard Steele

#Atheist #Light #People

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