Richard Steele Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• It is a wonderful thing that so many, and they not reckoned absurd, shall entertain those with whom they converse by giving them the history of their pains and aches and imagine such narrations their quota of conversation.

  Richard Steele

  Pain, Giving, Quota

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.132

• Pleasure seizes the whole man who addicts himself to it, and will not give him leisure for any good office in life which contradicts the gayety of the present hour.

  Richard Steele

  Men, Giving, Office

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1822). “The Spectator: With Notes and Illustrations. In Six Volumes”, p.164

• I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception.

  Richard Steele

  Giving, Offensive, Praise

  Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1710). “The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq”, p.302

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