Quotes by Richard Steele

“That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart”

“Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.”

“Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.”

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

“Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body.”

“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”

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

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

“I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception”

“A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript.”

“Age is a case of mind over matter. If you dont mind, it dont matter.”

“I never feel age ... If you have creative work, you dont have age or time.”

“Age is honourable and youth is noble.”

“Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.”

“You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.”

“As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.”

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

“The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.”

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

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