Quote #11
Will Honeycomb calls these over-offended ladies the outrageously virtuous.
More from Richard Steele
- Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.
- A favor well bestowed is almost as great an honor to him who confers it as to him who receives it.
- Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.
- No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience:
- Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent.
- 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 …
- The finest woman in nature should not detain me an hour from you; but you must sometimes suffer the rivalship of the wisest men.
- A little in drink, but at all times yr faithful husband.