Quotes by Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson

English writer

Lived from: 1709 - 1784

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 18 september 1709 Died: 13 december 1784

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  • I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.
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  • I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.
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  • I found you essay to be good and original. However, the part that was original was not good and the part that was good was not original.
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  • I gleaned jests at home from obsolete farces.
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  • I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
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  • I hate a fellow whom pride, or cowardice, or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl; let him come out as I do, and bark.
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  • I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
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  • I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
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  • I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
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  • I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
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  • I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed.
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  • I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.
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  • I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
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  • I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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  • I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
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  • I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbors about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow.
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  • I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.
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  • I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
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  • I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. An assault upon a town is a bad thing; but starving it is still worse.
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  • I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
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