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Author Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections of their author. To confer duration is not always in our power.…
- It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of the most studious…
- Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence.
- It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck at…
- Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his…
- Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.
- The wickedness of a loose or profane author is more atrocious than that of a giddy libertine or drunken ravisher, not only because it extends…
- A translator is to be like his author; it is not his business to excel him.
- While an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we rate him by his best.
- An author places himself uncalled before the tribunal of criticism and solicits fame at the hazard of disgrace.
- The best part of every author is in general to be found in his book, I assure you.
- 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…
- I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.
- Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author.
- A man finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of material on which he can employ himself, without any temptations to envy or…
- Whatever is attempted without previous certainty of success, may be considered as a project, and amongst narrow minds may, therefore, expose its author to censure…
- Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author
- While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate them by his best
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