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There are 255 quotes for the author Samuel Johnson

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Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises, and by eloquences sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic.

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.

I hate historic talk, and when Charles Fox said something to me once about Catiline's Conspiracy, I withdrew my attention, and thought about Tom Thumb.

Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach, and even this negative recompense has been yet granted to very few.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Their learning is like bread in a besieged town: every man gets a little, but no man gets a full meal.

In a man's letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is shown undisguised in its natural process. Nothing is inverted, nothing distorted, you see systems in their elements, you discover actions in their motives.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums.

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted.

A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

Boswell: That, Sir, was great fortitude of mind. Johnson: No, Sir, stark insensibility.

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