All Samuel Johnson Quotes
- Pity is not natural to man. Children and savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason. We may have… Acquired
- Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend. Every Friendless
- A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair. Constant
- A man is not obliged honestly to answer a question which should not properly be put. Advice
- There is little peace or comfort in life if we are always anxious as to future events. He that worries himself with the dread of… Always Anxious
- Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached… Been
- Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new. Change
- Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe. From
- We took tea, by Boswell's desire; and I eat one bun, I think, that I might not be seen to fast ostentatiously. When I find… Buns
- He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into the short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory,… Benefactor
- The finest landscape in the world is improved by a good inn in the foreground. Finest
- Women can spin very well, but they cannot write a good book of cookery. Book
- Men hate more steadily than they love. Hate
- Philips, whose touch harmonious could remove The pangs of guilty power and hapless love! Rest here, distress'd by poverty no more; Here find that calm… Angel
- Among the calamities of war may be numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages. Among
- It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession. Any
- The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small. Embrace
- There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful. Delightful
- Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency… Convinced
- Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade. Dress
- I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven. Daughter
- How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Still to ourselves in every place consigned,… All
- It is not often that any man can have so much knowledge of another, as is necessary to make instruction useful. Any
- A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden. Animal
- Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate. Calculate