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Quotes from The Spectator — Richard Steele

1672–1729 Ireland

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11 quotes

A favor well bestowed is almost as great an honor to him who confers it as to him who receives it.

The Spectator (1711)

A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript.

The Spectator (1711)

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

The Spectator (1711)

Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent.

The Spectator (1711)

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

The Spectator (1711)

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience…

The Spectator (1711)

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.

The Spectator (1711)

Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.

The Spectator (1711)

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

The Spectator (1711)

The insupportable labour of doing nothing.

The Spectator (1711)

We were in some little time fixed in our seats, and sat with that dislike which people not too good-natured usually conceive of each other at first sight.

The Spectator (1711)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Richard Steele (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.