Character Quote by Samuel Johnson

The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft intervals of…

— Samuel Johnson

Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no extraordinary talents to…

— Samuel Johnson

He that would travel for the entertainment of others, should remember that the great object of remark is human life. Every nation has something…

— Samuel Johnson

The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.

— Samuel Johnson

Sir, you must not neglect doing a thing immediately good from fear of remote evil; -from fear of its being abused.

— Samuel Johnson

These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy or ambition…

— Samuel Johnson

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it…

— Samuel Johnson

If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if…

— Anonymous

It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced…

— Emily Deschanel

When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do…

— David Hudgins

I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself.

— Kate Winslet

Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

— Charles Lamb