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Johnson, Samuel
English Literature
Poetry
Boswell’s biography of Johnson
dictionary compiled by Johnson
editing of Shakespeare’s works
friends and associates
importance in literary history
monument to Johnson
novel about Samuel Johnson
picture of Samuel Johnson
quotations
Admiration: If a man were to…
Advice: I have, all my life…
Age: There is a wicked inclination…
Alcohol: A tavern chair is the…
Alcohol: There is nothing which has…
Ambition: Every man has a lurking…
Ambition: I want to look like an American…
Americans: I am willing to love…
Arguments: Sir, I have found you…
Books: ELPHINSTON What, have you not…
Books: GOLDSMITH Here's such a stir…
Books: A man will turn over…
Catholicism: There is no idolatry in…
Character: A very unclubbable man.
Church: A man who is good…
Class: Your levellers wish to level…
Complaints: Nay, Madam, when you are…
Conversation: That is the happiest conversation…
Conversation: When two Englishmen meet, their…
Cowardice: I hate a fellow whom…
Credit: Small debts are like small shot; they are…
Criticism: Abuse is often of service. There is…
Criticism: He was dull in a…
Criticism: It is burning a farthing…
Criticism: Notes are often necessary, but…
Criticism: Sir, I perceive you are…
Criticism: Sir, there is no settling…
Criticism: The father of English criticism.
Criticism: You may abuse a tragedy,…
Critics: A fly, Sir, may sting…
Critics: There is a certain race…
Death And Dying: Depend upon it, Sir, when…
Dictators: A country governed by a…
Disappointment: This was a good dinner…
Disillusionment: I have protracted my work…
Doctors: It is incident to physicians, I am afraid, beyond…
Drinks: Claret is the liquor for…
Drinks: No, Sir; there were people…
Drunkenness: A man who exposes himself…
Dublin: Dublin, though a place much worse than…
Education: It is no matter what…
Education: There is now less flogging…
Education: When first the college rolls receive his…
Epitaphs: I am disappointed by that…
Epitaphs: In lapidary inscriptions a man…
Epitaphs: To Oliver Goldsmith, A Poet,…
Equality: It is better that some…
Etiquette: Questioning is not the mode of…
Fashion: Fine clothes are good only as they supply the…
Fathers: If the man who turnips…
Fishing: Fly fishing may be a…
Flattery: Madam, before you flatter a…
Food: Oats. A grain, which in…
Food: A cucumber should be well…
Food: It is as bad as…
Frankness: I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a…
Free Speech: I have got no further…
Friendship: Always, Sir, set a high…
Friendship: How few of his friends'…
Friendship: If a man does not make new acquaintance as he…
Friendship: Mrs. Montagu has dropt me.…
Friendship: Sir, I look upon every…
Gambling: I am sorry I have…
Genius: The true genius is a…
Government: I would not give half…
Gratitude: There are minds so impatient…
Happiness: Pleasure is very seldom found…
Happiness: That all who are happy,…
Happiness: Were it not for imagination,…
Heroism: Shakespeare has no heroes.
Historians: Great abilities are not requisite…
Honesty: Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance.
Hope: Condemned to hope's delusive mine, As on…
Hope: Hope is necessary in every…
Human Condition: Human life is everywhere a…
Humility: All censure of a man's…
Hunting: It is very strange, and…
Hypochondria: Dear Doctor (said he one…
Hypocrisy: How is it that we…
Idleness: We would all be idle if we could.
Illness: Cough. A convulsion of the…
Illness: Are you sick, or are…
Illness: I know not, that by…
Illness: I will be conquered; I…
Illness: Illness makes a man a…
Insincerity: He who praises everybody praises…
Insults: Sir, your wife, under pretence…
Insults: This man I thought had…
Integrity: Integrity without knowledge is weak…
Intellect: We are perpetually moralists, but…
Ireland: The Irish are a FAIR…
John Milton: Milton, Madam, was a genius…
Judgment: As I know more of…
Justice: A lawyer has no business…
Justice: See nations slowly wise and meanly…
Kindness: He was a vicious man,…
Knowledge: All knowledge is of itself…
Knowledge: In my early years I…
Knowledge: Knowledge is of two kinds.…
Knowledge: Why Sir, it is much…
Language: I am always sorry when…
Language: I am not yet so…
Language: I have laboured to refine…
Lawyers: He did not care to…
Learning: Deign on the passing world to turn thine…
Learning: Their learning is like bread…
Lexicography: Lexicographer. A writer of dictionaries,…
Lexicography: But these were the dreams…
Life And Death: It matters not how a…
Life: Almost every man wastes part…
Life: The love of life is…
Literature: Was there ever yet anything…
Literature: When the messenger who carried…
Literature: Yes, Sir, many men, many women, and many…
London: Here falling houses thunder on…
London: I think the full tide…
London: When a man is tired…
Longevity: Life protracted is protracted woe.
Love: Love is the wisdom of…
Lust: I'll come no more behind…
Marriage: Marriage has many pains, but…
Marriage: The triumph of hope over…
Misfortune: Depend upon it that if…
Money: I have two very cogent…
Money: Money and time are the heaviest burdens…
Money: There are few ways in…
Morality: But if he does really…
Music: Difficult do you call it,…
Music: The only sensual pleasure without…
Nature: Swallows certainly sleep all winter. A…
Navy: No man will be a sailor who has contrivance…
Occupations: The booksellers are generous…
Opinions: Indeed, the freedom with which…
Patriotism: Patriotism is the last refuge…
Patronage: Patron. Commonly a wretch who…
Patronage: Is not a Patron, my…
Pets: "Why yes, Sir, but I…
Philosophy: I refute it thus.
Philosophy: There are innumerable questions to…
Pleasure: If I had no duties,…
Poetry: They are forced plants, raised…
Politeness: The reciprocal civility of authors…
Politicians: Walpole was a minister given…
Politics: Politicks are now nothing more…
Politics: Why, Sir, most schemes of…
Poverty: A man, doubtful of his…
Poverty: Resolve not to be poor:…
Praise: Whoever wishes to attain an…
Punishment: The power of punishment is to silence, not…
Quotations: Classical quotation is the parole…
Quotations: Every quotation contributes something to…
Reading: A man ought to read…
Religion: A cow is a very…
Rhetoric: My dear friend, clear your…
Royalty: George the First knew nothing,…
Samuel Johnson: JOHNSON Well, we had a…
Samuel Johnson: Dr Johnson's sayings would not…
Samuel Johnson: Dr. Johnson's morality was as…
Samuel Johnson: In the foreground is that…
Samuel Johnson: Now that the old lion…
Samuel Johnson: Old dread-death and dread-evil Johnson,…
Samuel Johnson: That great Cham of Literature,…
Samuel Johnson: There is no arguing with…
Scotland: BOSWELL I do indeed come from Scotland,…
Scotland: A Scotchman must be a…
Scotland: Come, let me know what…
Scotland: Much may be made of…
Scotland: Norway, too, has noble wild…
Scotland: Seeing Scotland, Madam, is only…
Scotland: Sir, it is not so…
Sea: When men come to like…
Self-preservation: If a madman were to come into this room with a…
Smoking: Smoking...is a shocking thing, blowing…
Speech: A Frenchman must be always…
Speeches: Johnson made the most brutal speeches to…
Statistics: Round numbers are always false.
Stupidity: That fellow seems to me…
Style: Johnson's style was grand, Gibbon's…
Supernatural, The: All argument is against it;…
Translation: A translator is to be like his author, it…
Travel: A man who has not…
Travel: Worth seeing? yes; but not…
Trust: We are inclined to believe…
Truth: Truth, Sir, is a cow,…
Wealth: He is the richest author…
Wealth: Sir, the insolence of wealth…
William Shakespeare: It must be at last…
William Shakespeare: Shakespeare never had six lines…
Wit: Every man has, some time…
Wit: He washed himself with oriental…
Woman's Role: A man is in general…
Woman's Role: A woman's preaching is like…
Words: Dull. To make dictionaries is…
Words: Excise. A hateful tax levied…
Words: Network. Anything reticulated or decussated…
Work: The modest wants of every day The toil of…
Writers: A dangerous person to disagree…
Writers: He delivered Ireland from plunder…
Writers: His wigs were a constant source of trouble,…
Writers: No man was more foolish…
Writers: The chief glory of every…
Writing: No man but a blockhead…
Writing: Read over your compositions, and…
Writing: What is written without effort…
Youth: Towering in the confidence of…
Genius: The true genius is a…
The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
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