Quotes
Quotes - Johnson
I am glad that he thanks God for anything.
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious.
The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high-road that leads him to England.
If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.
Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an access of stupidity, sir, is not in Nature.
Sir, a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.
I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.
This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.
A very unclubable man.
I do not know, sir, that the fellow is an infidel; but if he be an infidel, he is an infidel as a dog is an infidel; that is to say, he has never thought upon the subject.
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
I am a great friend to public amusements; for they keep people from vice.
A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden.
Much may be made of a Scotchman if he be caught young.
A man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it.
Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known.
Was ever poet so trusted before?
Attack is the reaction. I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds.
A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
