Favors Quote by Richard Steele

“And I pray mark how he begins: he sets not up trophies to himself, but triumphs in his God-- "I will love thee, O…

— Richard Steele

Pride destroys all symmetry and grace, and affectation is a more terrible enemy to fine faces than the small-pox.

— Richard Steele

People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives.

— Richard Steele

A fool is in himself the object of pity, until he is flattered.

— Richard Steele

The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly any signification of their thoughts.

— Richard Steele

It is a certain sign of an ill heart to be inclined to defamation. They who are harmless and innocent can have no gratification…

— Richard Steele

I was going home two hours ago, but was met by Mr. Griffith, who has kept me ever since. . . . I will…

— Richard Steele

I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker.

— Richard Steele

Many take pleasure in spreading abroad the weakness of an exalted character.

— Richard Steele

It is an impertinent and unreasonable fault in conversation for one man to take up all the discourse.

— Richard Steele

It is a secret known but to few, yet of no small use in the conduct of life, that when you fall into a…

— Richard Steele

Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy.

— Richard Steele