Joseph Addison Quotes About Imperfection

Quotes about: Imperfection

• It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

  Joseph Addison

  Inspiring, Perfect, Excellence

• 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.

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

  Joseph Addison

  Inspiration, Imperfection, Critics

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

• I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike.

  Joseph Addison

  Thinking, Imperfection, Soul

  Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.112

• The moderns cannot reach their beauties, but can avoid their imperfections.

  Joseph Addison

  Imperfection

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.195

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