Quotes by Addison, Joseph

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of d >>

Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon >>

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above >>

Quotations about Dullness

What can he mean by coming among us? He is not only dull himself, but >>

What a comfort a dull but kindly person is, to be sure, at times! A gr >>

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only >>

Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer.

Addison, Joseph