Joseph Addison Quotes About Critics

Quotes about: Critics

• A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

  Joseph Addison

  House, Imperfection, Literature

  'The Spectator' no. 291, 2 February 1712.

• Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

  Joseph Addison

  Funny, Humor, Criticism

• A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections

  Joseph Addison

  Inspiration, Imperfection, Critics

  'The Spectator' no. 291, 2 February 1712.

• I never knew a critic who made it his business to lash the faults of other writers that was not guilty of greater himself--as the hangman is generally a worse malefactor than the criminal that suffers by his hand.

  Joseph Addison

  Hands, Suffering, Criminals

  Joseph Addison (1804). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.457

• The most exquisite words and finest strokes of an author are those which very often appear the most doubtful and exceptionable to a man who wants a relish for polite learning; and they are those which a sour undistinguishing critic generally attacks with the greatest violence.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Want, Violence

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1852). “The Spectator”, p.331

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