Richard Steele
Dramatist
1672-03-12
Quotes by Richard Steele
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People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives.
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People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives.
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The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life.
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Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
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To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude.
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The person whom you favoured with a loan, if he be a good man, will think himself in your debt after he has paid you.
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It is an impertinent and unreasonable fault in conversation for one man to take up all the discourse.
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It is a secret known but to few, yet of no small use in the conduct of life, that when you fall into a man's conversation, the first thing you should consider is, whether he has a greater inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him.
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It is a wonderful thing that so many, and they not reckoned absurd, shall entertain those with whom they converse by giving them the history of their pains and aches and imagine such narrations their quota of conversation.
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The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly any signification of their thoughts.
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Mutual good humour is a dress we ought to appear in wherever we meet, and we should make no mention of what concerns our selves, without it be of matters wherein our friends ought to rejoice.
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A favor well bestowed is almost as great an honor to him who confers it as to him who receives it.
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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.
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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.
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No woman is capable of being beautiful who is not incapable of being false.
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A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript.
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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.
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The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the compleatest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life.
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When a man is not disposed to hear music, there is not a more disagreeable sound in harmony than that of the violin.
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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.
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