Quotes by Addison, Joseph

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness. >>

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but tri >>

There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than t >>

Quotations about Slander

Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calum >>

Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you. >>

If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you w >>

Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.

Addison, Joseph