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Quotes from Richard Steele

There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy.
~ Richard Steele
Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.
~ Richard Steele
Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
~ Richard Steele
I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker.
~ Richard Steele
When a man has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass.
~ Richard Steele
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
Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent.
~ Richard Steele
To love her was a liberal education.
~ Richard Steele
When one has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass.
~ Richard Steele
Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.
~ Richard Steele
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.
~ Richard Steele
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
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.
~ Richard Steele
I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me.
~ Richard Steele
It has been a sort of maxim, that the greatest art is to conceal art; but I know not how, among some people we meet with, their greatest cunning is to appear cunning.
~ Richard Steele
No woman is capable of being beautiful who is not incapable of being false.
~ Richard Steele
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
A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband.
~ Richard Steele
A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript.
~ Richard Steele