Quote

It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.

Joseph Addison

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Joseph Addison
Age: 47 †
Born: 1672
Born: May 1
Died: 1719
Died: June 17
Editor
Essayist
Journalist
Librettist
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Writer
Milston
Wiltshire
Joseph Addisson
Right Hon. Joseph Addison
Men
Distinguished
Criticize
Performances
Ridiculous
Criticism
Works
Another

More quotes by Joseph Addison

Image
Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
Joseph Addison
Image
I should think myself a very bad woman, if I had done what I do for a farthing less.
Joseph Addison
Image
Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
Joseph Addison
Image
The woman that deliberates is lost.
Joseph Addison
Image
There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it a dash of folly.
Joseph Addison
Image
Let freedom never perish in your hands.
Joseph Addison
Image
Poverty palls the most generous spirits it cows industry, and casts resolution itself into despair.
Joseph Addison
Image
Should a writer single out and point his raillery at particular persons, or satirize the miserable, he might be sure of pleasing a great part of his readers, but must be a very ill man if he could please himself.
Joseph Addison
Image
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
Joseph Addison
Image
It is impossible for authors to discover beauties in one another's works they have eyes only for spots and blemishes.
Joseph Addison
Image
It is folly to seek the approbation of any being besides the Supreme.
Joseph Addison
Image
The Gods in bounty work up storms about us, that give mankind occasion to exert their hidden strength, and throw our into practice virtues that shun the day, and lie concealed in the smooth seasons and the calms of life.
Joseph Addison
Image
Nothing lies on our hands with such uneasiness as time. Wretched and thoughtless creatures! In the only place where covetousness were a virtue we turn prodigals.
Joseph Addison
Image
He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude and enjoy himself independent of its favor.
Joseph Addison
Image
Men who cherish for women the highest respect are seldom popular with them.
Joseph Addison
Image
What can be nobler than the idea it gives us of the Supreme Being?
Joseph Addison
Image
It is usual for a Man who loves Country Sports to preserve the Game in his own Grounds, and divert himself upon those that belongto his Neighbour.
Joseph Addison
Image
I would have every zealous man examine his heart thoroughly, and I believe he will often find that what be calls a zeal for his religion is either pride, interest, or ill-repute.
Joseph Addison
Image
The end of a man's life is often compared to the winding up of a well written play, where the principal persons still act in character, whatever the fate in which they undergo.
Joseph Addison
Image
Wine heightens indifference into love, love into jealousy, and jealousy into madness. It often turns the good-natured man into an idiot, and the choleric into an assassin. It gives bitterness to resentment, it makes vanity insupportable, and displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity.
Joseph Addison