All Samuel Johnson Quotes
- I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their… Beauty
- One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to… Amusement
- Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing. Avail
- High people, sir, are the best; take a hundred ladies of quality, you'll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to sacrifice their own… Best
- Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect. Clothes
- The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it at another; and… Ambition
- Long customs are not easily broken; he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labors in vain; and how shall… Able
- Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity. Accustom
- Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men. Admire
- Men have solicitude about fame; and the greater share they have of it, the more afraid they are of losing it. Afraid
- It is necessary to the success of flattery, that it be accommodated to particular circumstances or characters, and enter the heart on that side where… Accommodated
- Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true; but, in the second place, whether he… Certainly Thinks
- Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by… Contrary
- The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not… All
- A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice. Good
- If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written. Character
- It is not uncommon to charge the difference between promise and performance, between profession and reality, upon deep design and studied deceit; but the truth… Charge
- Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a… Affectation
- Books without the knowledge of life are useless. Book
- The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public. Acting
- He was so generally civil, that nobody thanked him for it. Civil
- It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination. From
- I would advise no man to marry who is not likely to propagate understanding. Advise
- There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress… Able
- The true art of memory is the art of attention. Art