Samuel Johnson Quote by Samuel Johnson

“I give my vote for Mr. Johnson to fill that great and arduous post. And I hereby declare that I make a total surrender…

— Lord Chesterfield

“Johnson demanded not only loyalty but also subservience from people around him. To humiliate and even to frighten others was to heighten his own…

— James T. Patterson

“A Johnson honours his obligations. His word is good and he is a good man to do business with. A Johnson minds his own…

— william s. Burroughs

“Thus even the most wretched individual breaths like a leaf in a verdant forest. His national identity supported him. A revered history receives him.…

— Anonymous

“He was proud of his hatred as of everything else. Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“I found that the last line in my Concordance and the last line in my six long volumes is Johnson’s quotation of Goldsmith’s fine…

— Samuel Johnson

“He felt that he could not turn aside from himself the hatred of men, because that hatred did not come from his being bad…

— Leo Tolstoy

“If you refuse me, I shall be compelled to believe that you are cruelly enjoying my misery, and that you have learned in the…

— Giacomo Casanova

“He firmly believed that everything he did was right, that he ought on all occasions to have his own way—and like the sting of…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“Johannes Cabal disliked many things, despised fewer, loathed fewer still, and reserved true hatred for only a handful. Understanding how intense his personal definition…

— Jonathan L. Howard

“BEWARE OF THE DOGS THAT DO NOT BARK”

— P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“He who writes this book in which hate is not hidden was formerly a pacifist...For him no disillusionment was ever greater or more sudden.…

— Emile Verhaeren