Richard Steele Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy

  Richard Steele

  Receiving, Praise, Pleasure

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, Alexander Chalmers (1822). “The Tatler”, p.94

• A Daughter: The companion, the friend, and the confidant of her mother, and the object of a pleasure something like the love between the angels to her father.

  Richard Steele

  Girl, Daughter, Mother

• Pleasure, when it is a man's chief purpose, disappoints itself; and the constant application to it palls the faculty of enjoying it.

  Richard Steele

  Men, Purpose, Pleasure

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.475

• Nothing is more silly than the pleasure some people take in "speaking their minds." A man of this make will say a rude thing for the mere pleasure of saying it, when an opposite behavior, full as innocent, might have preserved his friend, or made his fortune.

  Richard Steele

  Silly, Men, Opposites

• Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratifications.

  Richard Steele

  Men, Gentleman, Honor

• Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.

  Richard Steele

  Sex, Age, Youth

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator”, p.3

• 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

• There can hardly, I believe, be imagined a more desirable pleasure than that of praise unmixed with any possibility of flattery.

  Richard Steele

  Believe, Flattery, Praise

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.310

• The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his own life.

  Richard Steele

  Son, Men, Pleasure

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator”, p.125

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

  Richard Steele

  Character, Weakness, Pleasure

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