All Samuel Johnson Quotes
- Misery and shame are nearly allied. Allied
- Religion informs us that misery and sin were produced together. The depravation of human will was followed by a disorder of the harmony of nature;… Antidote
- Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for… Appetite
- Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him. Ah
- Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing… Acting
- I do not know, sir, that the fellow is an infidel; but if he be an infidel, he is an infidel as a dog is… Dog
- Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing its great streets… Building
- I do not wonder that, where the monastick life is permitted, every order finds votaries, and every monastery inhabitants. Men will submit to any rule,… Any
- If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind;… Afterwards
- Lichfield, England. Swallows certainly sleep all winter. A number of them conglobulate together, by flying round and round, and then all in a heap throw… All
- Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions. Cannot Subsist
- The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth… Abstruse
- The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by… Assailants
- Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. Debt
- No wonder, Sir, that he is vain; a man who is perpetually flattered in every mode that can be conceived. So many bellows have blown… Bellows
- Solitude is the surest nurse of all prurient passions, and a girl in the hurry of preparation, or tumult of gaiety, has neither inclination nor… All
- You think I love flattery (says Dr. Johnson), and so I do; but a little too much always disgusts me: that fellow Richardson, on the… Contented
- Pope had been flattered till he thought himself one of the moving powers of the system of life. When he talked of laying down his… Been
- To be flattered is grateful, even when we know that our praises are not believed by those who pronounce them; for they prove, at least,… Believed
- But, perhaps, the flatterer is not often detected; for an honest mind is not apt to suspect, and no one exerts the power of discernment… Apt
- In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it; for no species… All
- It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication of flattery. Credible
- Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. The acknowledgment of those virtues on which conscience congratulates us is a tribute that… Acknowledgment
- The mischief of flattery is, not that it persuades any man that he is what he is not, but that it suppresses the influence of… Ambition
- Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery… Accident