"Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it……" — Samuel Johnson
"Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything."
—
Samuel Johnson
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
1,266 Quotes by Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson has 1,266 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Your aspirations are your possibilities.
-
It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either…
-
The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on…
-
Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
-
To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful.
-
The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
-
Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
-
The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought…
-
Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
-
Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.
-
The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
-
He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect…
See all 1,266 quotes by Samuel Johnson »
More Always Easier Quotes
This quote is filed under Always Easier Quotes,
one of 50 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
— Alfred Adler
-
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
— John Burroughs
-
It is always easier to talk about change than to make it.
— Alvin Toffler
-
It's always easier if you have the support of your family, if you're not alone. I came from a country…
— Novak Djokovic
-
Football's always easier when you've got the ball.
— Kevin Keegan
-
To write a book such as Tiger Bone & Rhino Horn is a formidable undertaking. You must accumulate thousands of…
— Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
-
It is always easier to take the words of a Jesus, a Gandhi, a Marx, or a Confucius as constituting…
— William Coperthwaite
-
It's always easier to apologize for something you've already done than to get approval for it in advance.
— Grace Hopper
-
We don't live in a shared reality, we each live in a reality of our own, and causing upset is…
— Frankie Boyle
-
In TV, you usually don't get a chance to fix anything. It's always easier to cancel something than fix it.
— Nick Zano
-
Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.
— Howard Mumford Jones
-
The stronger you stand on your principles, the easier it is to fight. The first time, it's tough, but the…
— Shaffi Mather
See all 50 Always Easier Quotes »