All Samuel Johnson Quotes
- Wretched un-idea'd girls. Girl
- When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must be highly gratifying… Abilities
- Order is a lovely nymph, the child of Beauty and Wisdom; her attendants are Comfort, Neatness, and Activity; her abode is the valley of happiness:… Abode
- It is better a man should be abused than forgotten. Abuse
- The accidental prescriptions of authority, when time has procured them veneration, are often confounded with the laws of nature, and those rules are supposed coeval… Accidental
- Reason will by degrees submit to absurdity, as the eye is in time accommodated to darkness. Absurdity
- Accustom your children constantly to this; if a thing happened at one window and they, when relating it, say that it happened at another, do… Accustom
- Study requires solitude, and solitude is a state dangerous to those who are too much accustomed to sink into themselves Accustomed
- Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases Acquaintance
- In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness - inspissated gloom. Bat
- Nobody has the right to put another under such a difficulty that he must either hurt the person by telling the truth or hurt himself… Behaviour
- Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats, And ask no questions but the price of votes. Ask
- It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure the common practices… Censure
- It is a hopeless endeavour to unite the contrarieties of spring and winter; it is unjust to claim the privileges of age, and retain the… Age
- To me - the choice of life is become less important; I hope hereafter to think only on the choice of eternity. Become Less
- He who sees different ways to the same end, will, unless he watches carefully over his own conduct, lay out too much of his attention… Accident
- Every man may be observed to have a certain strain of lamentation, some peculiar theme of complaint on which he dwells in his moments of… Certain
- It is thus that mutual cowardice keeps us in peace. Were one half of mankind brave and one cowards, the brave would be always beating… All
- Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption. Charged
- The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow. Abuse
- We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest,… All
- Don't tell me of deception; a lie is a lie, whether it be a lie to the eye or a lie to the ear. Deceit
- Deceit and falsehood, whatever conveniences they may for a time promise or produce, are, in the sum of life, obstacles to happiness. Those who profit… Act
- Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied. All
- Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in… Advances