Logo
Quote by Joseph Addison
Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity. - Joseph A

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity. – Joseph Addison

Other quotes by Joseph Addison

We are always doing, says he, something for posterity, but I would see posterity do something for us. – Joseph Addison

Category:
History
Author
Joseph Addison
Read Quote

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. – Joseph Addison

Category:
best
Author
Joseph Addison
Read Quote

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of ones self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. – Joseph Addison

Category:
Friendship
Author
Joseph Addison
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Criticism
category

The covers of this book are too far apart. – Ambrose Bierce

Category:
Criticism

The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion. – Walter Benjamin

Category:
Criticism

Even the lion has to defend himself against flies. – Proverb

Category:
Criticism

I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style. – Louis Aragon

Category:
Criticism

Random Quotes

My second husband believed I had such a fickle attitude to friendship that each Friday he would update the list of my Top Ten friends in the manner of a Top Of The Pops chart countdown. – Julie Burchill

Category:
Attitude

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life. – Jacques Prevert

Category:
cool

The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Category:
Anarchy

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous. – George Bernard Shaw

Category:
Peace