All Joseph Addison Quotes
- If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth,… All
- Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore… Choose
- It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of… Affected
- Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty. Agreeable
- My voice is still for war. Inspirational
- From hence, let fierce contending nations know, what dire effects from civil discord flow. Civil
- Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud. Aloud
- It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age. Age
- Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors. All
- But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we give… Advantage
- A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails… Affliction
- There is nothing that more betrays a base ungenerous spirit than the giving of secret stabs to a man's reputation. Lampoons and satires that are… Base
- He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude and enjoy himself independent of its favor. Applause
- There is no defense against reproach, but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness. Concomitant
- When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many… Action
- Life is not long enough for a coquette to play all her tricks in. All
- If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches… Censure
- As vivacity is the gift of woman, gravity is that of men. Gift
- I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth is short and… Act
- There is no kind of false wit which has been so recommended by the practice of all ages, as that which consists in a jingle… Age
- Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with… Action
- They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it. Except
- A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil but from the temper of the sufferer. Anger
- A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections Critic
- Facts are plain spoken; hopes and figures are its aversion. Aversion