Bashfulness Quote by Joseph Addison Download Open image “We have in England a particular bashfulness in every thing that regards religion.” — Joseph Addison ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bashfulness England Particular Regard Religion
We from every religion feel comfortable in Britain because there is a host. The Church of England is a good host, it has been… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
The religion of England is part of good-breeding. When you see on the continent the well-dressed Englishman come into his ambassador's chapel and put… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There's no question that there is more anti-religion noise in Britain. — Trevor Phillips Copy Share Image
What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion! — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
“The number of choirboys indecently assaulted annually by vicars and churchwardens may lead you to suppose that England is a deeply religious country. I” — Tom Sharpe Copy Share Image
All three of our major religions in Britain ~ Christianity, Islam and Judaism - have a hateful idea at the very core. That idea… — Matthew Parris Copy Share Image
“One need not be a rabid Anglican to be extremely sensible to the charm of an English country church...” — Henry James Copy Share Image
In Britain, politicians who openly discuss their spirituality are about as welcome as Jehovah' s Witnesses on the doorstep, and the British associate the… — Gavin Esler Copy Share Image
Christian bashing is alive and well on college and university campuses also. In fact, it's ever more direct and overt because Christianity is not… — D. James Kennedy Copy Share Image
Bashing the Religious Right has become an acceptable political sport. — Rick Scarborough Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Many actions calculated to procure fame are not conducive to ultimate happiness. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Mere bashfulness without merit is awkward; and merit without modesty, insolent. But modest merit has a double claim to acceptance, and generally meets with… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
He, full of bashfulness and truth, loved much, hoped little, and desired naught. — Torquato Tasso Copy Share Image
I am not likely to die of bashfulness but neither am I prepared to be crucified to attest the perfection of my art. I… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
As to the human race. There are many pretty and winning things about the human race. It is perhaps the poorest of all the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Women who are the least bashful are not unfrequently the most modest; and we are never more deceived than when we would infer any… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“If we all knew that we were all perverts, we might be a lot happier.” — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with his merit,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There are two distinct sorts of what we call bashfulness; this, the awkwardness of a booby, which a few steps into the world will… — Henry Mackenzie Copy Share Image
Perhaps a maiden's bashfulness is more A matron's lesson than our lips aver. — Alfred Austin Copy Share Image
“ Bashfulnesse Of all our parts, the eyes expresse The sweetest kind of bashfulnesse. ” — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
Bashfulness is more frequently connected with good sense than we find assurance; and impudence, on the other hand, is often the mere effect of… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
