Joseph Addison Quotes About Ridicule

Quotes about: Ridicule

• Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Laughter, Humor

• The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exposing to laughter those one converses with, is the qualification of little ungenerous tempers.

  Joseph Addison

  Laughter, Men, Littles

  Joseph Addison (1856). “The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd”, p.147

• If ridicule were employed to laugh men out of vice and folly, it might be of some use.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Laughing, Vices

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.324

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