Dr Johnson Quotes

13 quotes by 10 authors

• Dr. Johnson ... sometimes employed himself in chymistry, sometimes in watering and pruning a vine, and sometimes in small experiments, at which those who may… — James Boswell
• Dr Johnson said, the inscription should have been in Latin, as every thing intended to be universal and permanent, should be. — James Boswell
• Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of… — Jane Porter
• 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… — Samuel Johnson
• Some people act as if it were demeaning to their manhood to wish to be well-read but you can no more be a healthy person… — Earl Nightingale
• One of Dr. Johnson's ingredients of happiness was, "A little less time than you want." That means always to have so many things you want… — Helen Hunt Jackson
• The stone that Dr. Johnson once kicked to demonstrate the reality of matter has become dissipated in a diffuse distribution of mathematical probabilities. The ladder… — Morris Kline
• Boswell: But, Sir is it not somewhat singular that you should happen to have Cocker's Arithmetic about you on your journey? Dr. Johnson: Why, Sir… — James Boswell
• The greatest artists, saints, philosophers, and, until quite recent times, scientists... have all assumed that the New Testament promise of eternal life is valid.... I'd… — Malcolm Muggeridge
• I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel. — George Galloway
• Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well,… — William Hazlitt
• Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as… — Ambrose Bierce
• BRANDY, n. A cordial composed of one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the- grave and four parts clarified Satan.… — Ambrose Bierce

Who Wrote These Dr Johnson Quotes

10 authors contributed a total of 13 Dr Johnson Quotes as follows:

• 3 Dr Johnson Quotes by James Boswell
• 2 Dr Johnson Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
• 1 Dr Johnson Quote by Jane Porter
• 1 Dr Johnson Quote by Samuel Johnson
• 1 Dr Johnson Quote by Earl Nightingale
• 1 Dr Johnson Quote by Morris Kline
• 1 Dr Johnson Quote by Malcolm Muggeridge
• 1 Dr Johnson Quote by George Galloway
• 1 Dr Johnson Quote by William Hazlitt
• 1 Dr Johnson Quote by Helen Hunt Jackson