2,116 Quotes by Samuel Johnson

There may be community of material possessions, but there can never be community of love or esteem.

What is said upon a subject is gathered from an hundred people.

Irresolution and mutability are often the faults of men whose views are wide, and whose imagination is vigorous and excursive.

What I gained by being in France was learning to be better satisfied with my own country.

There are minds which easily sink into submission, that look on grandeur with undistinguishing reverence, and discover no defect where there is elevation of rank and affluence of riches

Allegories drawn to great length will always break.

That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem.

All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.

In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness - inspissated gloom.