Logo
Quote by Joseph Addison
Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness. - Joseph Addison

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness. – Joseph Addison

Other quotes by Joseph Addison

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person. – Joseph Addison

Category:
Humility
Author
Joseph Addison
Read Quote

Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves. – Joseph Addison

Category:
Words
Author
Joseph Addison
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Confidence
category

Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic. – Jean Sibelius

Category:
Confidence

Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame. – Thomas à Kempis

Category:
Confidence

Men harm others by their deeds, themselves by their thoughts. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

Category:
Confidence

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance. – Bruce Barton

Category:
Confidence

Random Quotes

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. – J. Robert Oppenheimer

Category:
best

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. – William Butler Yeats

Category:
saintpatricksday

I force people to have coffee with me, just because I dont trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen. – John Cusack

Category:
Friendship

Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government. – Bob Woodward

Category:
Government