Samuel Johnson Quotes
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A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
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But, scarce observ'd, the knowing and the boldFall in the gen'ral massacre of gold.
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The endearing elegance of female friendship.
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I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
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A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity.
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It is man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age.
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.
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I'll come no more behind your scenes, David Garrick; for the silk stockings and white bosoms of your actresses excite my amorous propensities.
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Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
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Hunting was the labour of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England.
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Ah! let not Censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public's voice; The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please must please to live.
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Nothing is little to him that feels it with great sensibility.
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Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.
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Wretched un-idea'd girls.
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The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
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A Frenchman must be always talking, whether he knows anything of the matter or not; an Englishman is content to say nothing, when he has nothing to say.
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CLUB - An assembly of good fellows, meeting under certain conditions.
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Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.
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By Numbers here from Shame or Censure free,All Crimes are safe, but hated Poverty.This, only this, the rigid Law persues,This, only this, provokes the snarling Muse.
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Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.
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Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment.
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A thousand horrid Prodigies foretold it.A feeble government, eluded Laws,A factious Populace, luxurious Nobles,And all the maladies of stinking states.
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As I know more of mankind, I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man, upon easier terms than I was formerly.
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Sir, what is Poetry? Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is: but it is not easy to tell what it is.