All Samuel Johnson Quotes
- As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment, the reproach of making the world miserable has always been thrown upon the women. Been
- Get together a hundred or two men, however sensible they may be, and you are very likely to have a mob. Get Together
- These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes. Adequate
- Occupation alone is happiness. Alone
- Present opportunities are neglected, and attainable good is slighted, by minds busied in extensive ranges and intent upon future advantages. Advantage
- Pleasure itself is not a vice Inspirational
- A man guilty of poverty easily believes himself suspected. Believe
- None can be pleased without praise, and few can be praised without falsehood. Falsehood
- The first years of man must make provision for the last. First Years
- What is twice read is commonly better remembered that what is transcribed. Better
- To paint things as they are requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy. Attention
- He that never labors may know the pains of idleness, but not the pleasures. Idleness
- To be of no Church is dangerous. Church
- As every one is pleased with imagining that he knows something not yet commonly divulged, secret history easily gains credit; but it is for the… Believed
- To tell your own secrets is generally folly, but that folly is without guilt; to communicate those with which we are intrusted is always treachery,… Combined
- The rules that I shall propose concerning secrecy, and from which I think it not safe to deviate without long and exact deliberation, are, never… Accept
- Everybody knows worse of himself than he knows of other men. Everybody
- Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense. Coward
- The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow. Busy
- Want of tenderness is want of parts, and is no less a proof of stupidity than depravity. Depravity
- Conjecture as to things useful, is good; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle. Conjecture
- Let observation with extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded… Anxious
- The best part of every author is in general to be found in his book, I assure you. Assure
- The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged to speak… Asked
- I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield," which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: "I do not love a man who is… Afterwards