Richard Steele Quotes

Those grave fellows are my aversion who sift everything with the utmost nicety, and find the malignity of a lie in a piece of humour, pushed a little beyond exact truth.

I am confident that no boy, who will not be allured to letters without blows, will ever be brought to anything with them.

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.

I was undone by my Auxiliary; when I had once called him in, I could not subsist without Dependance on him.

It gave me a great notion of the credit of our present government and administration, to find people press as eagerly to pay money as they would to receive it; and, at the same time, a due respect for that body of men who have found out so pleasing an expedient for carrying on the common cause, that they have turned a tax into a diversion.

Every man is the maker of his own fortune.