110 Quotes by Richard Steele

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

To behold her is an immediate check to loose behavior; to love her is a liberal education.

No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more than she can be witty only by the help of speech

They that live in a trading street are not disturbed at the passage of carts

The truth of it is, the first rudiments of education are given very indiscreetly by most parents

The conquest of passion gives ten times more happiness than we can reap from the gratification of it

I have often lamented that we cannot close our ears with as much ease as we can our eyes

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.

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.