Richard Steele

Richard Steele

Sir Richard Steele (bap. 12 March 1672 – 1 September 1729) was an Irish writer and politician, remembered as co-founder, with his friend Joseph Addison, of the magazine The Spectator.

Read more about Richard Steele:  Life, Steele As A Writer, In Popular Culture, See Also

Famous quotes containing the words richard steele, richard and/or steele:

    The Mind in Infancy is, methinks, like the Body in Embrio, and receives Impressions so forcible, that they are as hard to be removed by Reason, as any Mark with which a Child is born is to be taken away by any future Application.
    Richard Steele (1672–1729)

    I think that Richard Nixon will go down in history as a true folk hero, who struck a vital blow to the whole diseased concept of the revered image and gave the American virtue of irreverence and skepticism back to the people.
    William Burroughs (b. 1914)

    To behold her is an immediate check to loose behaviour; to love her is a liberal education.
    —Richard Steele (1672–1729)