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Samuel Johnson
I am a...
I am a great friend to public amusements, for they keep people from vice.
Source:...
I can't drink...
I can't drink a little, therefore I never touch it. Abstinence is as easy for me as temperance would be...
I deny the...
I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him. You have no business with consequences;...
He who does...
He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
Source: Quoted in:...
Go into the...
Go into the street and give one man a lecture on morality and another a shilling, and see which one will respect you...
I am not...
I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons...
I know not,...
I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so...
I had rather...
I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the...
Honesty is not...
Honesty is not greater where elegance is less.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
God Himself, sir,...
God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and...
I am sorry...
I am sorry I have not learned to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness and consolidates...
If a madman...
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...
I have found...
I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you understanding.
Source:...
Hope is itself...
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other...
Great works are...
Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.
Source:...
I am willing...
I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.
Source: Quoted in: Boswell,...
If a man...
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left...
I know not,...
I know not, that by living dissections any discovery has been made by which a single malady is more easily...
I gleaned jests...
I gleaned jests at home from obsolete farces.
Source: Rambler, no. 141 (London, 23...
Guilt once harbored...
Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great.