Richard Steele Quotes About Wit

Quotes about: Wit

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

  Richard Steele

  Beauty, Modesty, Wit

• Violins are the lively, forward, importunate wits, that distinguish themselves by the flourishes of imagination, sharpness of repartee, glances of satire, and bear away the upper part in every consort.

  Richard Steele

  Imagination, Musical, Violin

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1837). “The Tatler: With Notes and a General Index ; Complete in One Volume”, p.279

• There is hardly that person to be found who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense, than honesty and virtue.

  Richard Steele

  Honesty, Reputation, Virtue

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1797). “The Spectator”, p.23

• It may be remarked in general, that the laugh of men of wit is for the most part but a feint, constrained kind of half-laugh, as such persons are never without some diffidence about them; but that of fools is the most honest, natural, open laugh in the world.

  Richard Steele

  Laughter, Men, Laughing

  Sir Richard Steele (1837). “The Guardian, with Notes, and General Indexes: Complete in One Volume”, p.43

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