Richard Steele Quotes

Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.

A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript

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

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

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

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.

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.

The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly any signification of their thoughts.

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

Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy.

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.

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

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

Modesty never rages, never murmurs, never pouts; when it is ill-treated, it pines, it beseeches, it languishes.

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

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.

To love her was a liberal education.

A woman seldom writes her Mind but in her Postscript.