Evil Quotes by Samuel Johnson

The worst evils are those that never arrive.

— Samuel Johnson

All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.

— Samuel Johnson

Some have little power to do good, and have likewise little strength to resist evil.

— Samuel Johnson

All this [wealth] excludes but one evil, poverty.

— Samuel Johnson

No evil is insupportable but that which is accompanied with consciousness of wrong.

— Samuel Johnson

Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.

— Samuel Johnson

Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.

— Samuel Johnson

Still we love The evil we do, until we suffer it.

— Samuel Johnson

In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if…

— Samuel Johnson

The good of our present state is merely comparative, and the evil which every man feels will be sufficient to disturb and…

— Samuel Johnson

As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more…

— Samuel Johnson

Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might…

— Samuel Johnson

Sir, you must not neglect doing a thing immediately good from fear of remote evil; -from fear of its being abused.

— Samuel Johnson

Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil.

— Samuel Johnson

Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him…

— Samuel Johnson

Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.

— Samuel Johnson

Falsehoods of convenience or vanity, falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues, except the general degradation of human testimony, are very…

— Samuel Johnson

The business of life is to go forward; he who sees evil in prospect meets it in his way, and he who…

— Samuel Johnson

Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither…

— Samuel Johnson

Misery is caused for the most part, not by a heavy crush of disaster, but by the corrosion of less visible evils,…

— Samuel Johnson

To grieve for evils is often wrong; but it is much more wrong to grieve without them. All sorrow that lasts longer…

— Samuel Johnson

Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear…

— Samuel Johnson

There are indeed, in the present corruption of mankind, many incitements to forsake truth: the need of palliating our own faults and…

— Samuel Johnson

To scatter praise or blame without regard to justice is to destroy the distinction of good and evil. Many have no other…

— Samuel Johnson

Many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by…

— Samuel Johnson

But it is evident, that these bursts of universal distress are more dreaded than felt; thousands and ten thousands flourish in youth,…

— Samuel Johnson

He that would travel for the entertainment of others, should remember that the great object of remark is human life. Every nation…

— Samuel Johnson

It is generally allowed, that no man ever found the happiness of possession proportionate to that expectation which incited his desire, and…

— Samuel Johnson

Health is certainly more valuable than money; because it is by health that money is procured; but thousands and millions are of…

— Samuel Johnson

He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes,…

— Samuel Johnson

We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and to catch…

— Samuel Johnson

The imaginations excited by the view of an unknown and untravelled wilderness are not such as arise in the artificial solitude of…

— Samuel Johnson

Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil.

— Samuel Johnson

It is unpleasing to represent our affairs to our own disadvantage; yet it is necessary to shew the evils which we desire…

— Samuel Johnson

The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.

— Samuel Johnson

“Is there such depravity in man as that he should injure another without benefit to himself?”

— Samuel Johnson

Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.

— Samuel Johnson

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

— Samuel Johnson

Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we…

— Samuel Johnson

In all evils which admit a remedy, impatience is to be avoided, because it wastes that time and attention in complaints, that,…

— Samuel Johnson