110 Quotes by Richard Steele

When a man is not disposed to hear music, there is not a more disagreeable sound in harmony than that of the violin.

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

Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.

Pride destroys all symmetry and grace, and affectation is a more terrible enemy to fine faces than the small-pox.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.