2,116 Quotes by Samuel Johnson

Every man is of importance to himself.

I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

Stand Firm for your country, and become a man Honour'd and lov'd: It were a noble life, To be found dead, embracing her.

Smoking is a shocking thing - blowing smoke out of our mouths into other people's mouths, eyes, and noses, and having the same thing done to us.

In the most general applause discordant voices will always be heard

I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain.

The mischief of flattery is, not that it persuades any man that he is what he is not, but that it suppresses the influence of honest ambition, by raising an opinion that honour may be gained without the toil of merit.

Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.