110 Quotes by Richard Steele

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 praise of an ignorant man is only good-will, and you should receive his kindness as he is a good neighbor in society, and not as a good judge of your actions in point of fame and reputation.

It is a very melancholy reflection that men are usually so weak that it is absolutely necessary for them to know sorrow and pain to be in their right senses.

A man advanced in years that thinks fit to look back on his former life, and calls that only life which was passed with satisfaction and enjoyment, excluding all parts which were not pleasant to him, will find himself very young, if not in infancy.

The person, whom you favored with a loan, if he be a good man, will think himself in your debt after he has paid you.

There are so few who can grow old with a good grace.

No woman is capable of being beautiful who is not incapable of being false.

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

Will. Honeycomb calls these over-offended ladies the outrageously virtuous.