Enough Quote by Samuel Johnson

“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

“The Vicar’s talk was not always inspiriting: he had escaped being a Pharisee, but he had not escaped that low estimate of possibilities which…

— George Eliot

“There was never proud man thought so absurdly well of himself, as the lover doth of the person loved; and therefore it was well…

— Francis Bacon

I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.

— Oliver Goldsmith

“Love is but a frailty of mind when ‘tis not with ambition joined." -Sir Thomas Seymour”

— Jacqueline Kolosov

“But it is a strange experience, to a man of pride and sensibility, to know that his interests are within the control of individuals…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“He clothed his motives in the names of virtue, and I have wondered whether he ever knew that no gift will ever buy back…

— John Steinbeck

“As ever, he is surpriz'd by the fierceness of their bodies, their inability to hold back, the purity of the not-yet-dishonest,— 'twould take a…

— Thomas Pynchon

“A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and…

— Dave Donovan

“There were no scruples, no feelings of respect or loyal affection that would stop us from making up our minds by the pure light…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“His nature was not a suspicious one, and he did not take pleasure, as some men did, in believing himself to have been betrayed.”

— Eleanor Catton

“Or there were the poets and thinkers. Suppose he had had that passion, and had gone to Sir William Bradshaw, a great doctor yet…

— Virginia Woolf