Character Quote by Joseph Addison

Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion,…

— Joseph Addison

Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal…

— Joseph Addison

There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress.

— Joseph Addison

We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

— Joseph Addison

Female Virtues are of a Domestick turn. The Family is the proper Province for Private Women to Shine in. If they must be showing…

— Joseph Addison

As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest.

— Joseph Addison

There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply…

— Joseph Addison

When love once pleads admission to our hearts, In spite of all the virtue we can boast, The woman that deliberates is lost.

— Joseph Addison

Many actions calculated to procure fame are not conducive to ultimate happiness.

— Joseph Addison

T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile.

— Joseph Addison

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

— Joseph Addison

The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them.

— Joseph Addison