Art Quote by Samuel Johnson

Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree, to those…

— Samuel Johnson

Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree, to those…

— Samuel Johnson

There is a certain sort of man whose doom in the world is disappointment, who excels in it, and whose luckless triumphs in his…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities superior, either in kind or degree, to those…

— Samuel Johnson

A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others. For men's minds, will either feed upon their own good, or…

— Francis Bacon

Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs; are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent in this…

— Arthur Helps

A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if he fails and…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“Man is naturally humble, naturally grateful, naturally guilty, naturally transcended, naturally a sufferer; he is small, pitiful, weak, a passive taker who tucks himself…

— Ernest Becker

“Now he understood that a man never knows for whom he suffers and hopes. He suffers and hopes and toils for people he will…

— Alejo Carpentier

Whoever desires, for his writings or himself, what none can reasonably contemn, the favour of mankind, must add grace to strength, and make his…

— Samuel Johnson

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others;…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Alas, he himself was a man too easily encouraged, too completely seduced by hope, only to be devastated by disappointment. He’d been born to…

— Richard Russo