Samuel Johnson (born Lichfield, Staffordshire, England 18 September 1709; died London 13 December 1784) was a famous writer. After publishing a famous dictionary, he was given a doctorate, which is why he is often called “Dr Johnson”. He wrote some of his own stories, but more often he wrote criticisms about what other people had written. He said a lot of witty, amusing things, which are still remembered today. We know about some of the funny things he said because his friend James Boswell wrote a book about him. Johnson was a tall and robust man. His odd gestures and tics were disconcerting to some on first meeting him. Boswell’s Life, along with other biographies, documented Johnson’s behaviour and mannerisms in such detail that they have informed the posthumous diagnosis of Tourette syndrome, a condition not defined or diagnosed in the 18th century. After a series of illnesses, he died on the evening of 13 December 1784, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. In the years following his death, Johnson began to be recognised as having had a lasting effect on literary criticism, and he was claimed by some to be the only truly great critic of English literature. We being you the compilation of the best Samuel Johnson Quotes, hope you like it.
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No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true. -Samuel Johnson
When an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we rate them by his best. -Samuel Johnson
If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, ‘Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father. -Samuel Johnson
Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? -Samuel Johnson
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. -Samuel Johnson
Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it. -Samuel Johnson
No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments. -Samuel Johnson
Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment. -Samuel Johnson
It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote. -Samuel Johnson
A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of everything. -Samuel Johnson
I like a good hater. -Samuel Johnson
That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem. -Samuel Johnson
Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind’s delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied. -Samuel Johnson
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John Wesley’s conversation is good, but he is never at leisure. He is always obliged to go at a certain hour. This is very disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have his talk out as I do. -Samuel Johnson
The true art of memory is the art of attention. -Samuel Johnson
Courage is the greatest of all the virtues. Because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others. -Samuel Johnson
It is foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. -Samuel Johnson
Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves. -Samuel Johnson
A man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge. -Samuel Johnson
Men know that women are an over match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves. -Samuel Johnson
A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments. -Samuel Johnson
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.-Samuel Johnson |
Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment. -Samuel Johnson
The true art of memory is the art of attention. -Samuel Johnson
Languages are the pedigree of nations. -Samuel Johnson
The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged to speak the truth. -Samuel Johnson
In all pleasure hope is a considerable part. -Samuel Johnson
Present opportunities are neglected, and attainable good is slighted, by minds busied in extensive ranges and intent upon future advantages. -Samuel Johnson
Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use. -Samuel Johnson
Much may be made of a Scotchman if he be caught young. -Samuel Johnson
Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you. -Samuel Johnson
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Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable. -Samuel Johnson
Were it not for imagination, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess. -Samuel Johnson
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. -Samuel Johnson
Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment. -Samuel Johnson
Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say. -Samuel Johnson
Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen. -Samuel Johnson
If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards. -Samuel Johnson
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble. -Samuel Johnson
It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity. -Samuel Johnson
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks is truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. -Samuel Johnson
As the Spanish proverb says, “He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.” So it is in traveling: a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge. -Samuel Johnson
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. -Samuel Johnson
The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence. -Samuel Johnson
Adversity has ever been considered as the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being free from flatterers. -Samuel Johnson
He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity. -Samuel Johnson
As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment, the reproach of making the world miserable has always been thrown upon the women. -Samuel Johnson
Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.-Samuel Johnson
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert it only irritates. -Samuel Johnson
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble. -Samuel Johnson
Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us. -Samuel Johnson
Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.-Samuel Johnson
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. -Samuel Johnson
In a man’s letters his soul lies naked. -Samuel Johnson
Shame arises from the fear of man; conscience from the fear of God. -Samuel Johnson
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. -Samuel Johnson
When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints. -Samuel Johnson
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The first years of man must make provision for the last. -Samuel Johnson
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. -Samuel Johnson
Example is more efficacious than precept. -Samuel Johnson
Nothing at all will be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. -Samuel Johnson
Had I learned to fiddle, I should have done nothing else. -Samuel Johnson
The drama’s laws, the drama’s patrons give. For we that live to please, must please to live. -Samuel Johnson
There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow. -Samuel Johnson
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef, love, like being enlivened with champagne. -Samuel Johnson
To be of no Church is dangerous. -Samuel Johnson
When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four. -Samuel Johnson
Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance. -Samuel Johnson
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. -Samuel Johnson
None are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. -Samuel Johnson
Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better. -Samuel Johnson
It is better to live rich than to die rich. -Samuel Johnson
That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind; not only the same end must be proposed, but the same means must be approved by both. -Samuel Johnson
We are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself. -Samuel Johnson
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. -Samuel Johnson
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. -Samuel Johnson
Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. -Samuel Johnson
He that has much to do will do something wrong. -Samuel Johnson
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords. -Samuel Johnson
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