Joseph Addison Quotes About Imagination

Quotes about: Imagination

• Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Ideas, Giving

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steel (1840). “Selections from the Spectator: Embracing the Most Interesting Papers by Addison, Steel, and Others”, p.273

• There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress.

  Joseph Addison

  Beautiful, Imagination, Beautiful Women

  Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1861). “History, Opinions, and Lucubrations, of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq: From the "Tatler"”, p.174

• I think a Person who is thus terrified with the Imagination of Ghosts and Spectres much more reasonable, than one who contrary to the Reports of all Historians sacred and profane, ancient and modern, and to the Traditions of all Nations, thinks the Appearance of Spirits fabulous and groundless.

  Joseph Addison

  Thinking, Imagination, Sacred

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.353

• Men of warm imaginations and towering thoughts are apt to overlook the goods of fortune which are near them, for something that glitters in the sight at a distance; to neglect solid and substantial happiness for what is showy and superficial; and to contemn that good which lies within their reach, for that which they are not capable of attaining. Hope calculates its schemes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often ensnares men into beggary, ruin, and dishonour.

  Joseph Addison

  Happiness, Distance, Lying

  Joseph Addison (1837). “The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator, no. 315-635”, p.308

• Among the English authors, Shakespeare has incomparably excelled all others. That noble extravagance of fancy, which he had in so great perfection, thoroughly qualified him to touch the weak, superstitious part of his readers' imagination, and made him capable of succeeding where he had nothing to support him besides the strength of his own genius.

  Joseph Addison

  Imagination, Perfection, Support

  Joseph Addison (1975). “Essays in Criticism and Literary Theory”, Harlan Davidson

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