2,116 Quotes by Samuel Johnson

All censure of a man’s self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.

Prosperity’s right hand is industry and her left hand is frugality.

Don’t, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.

Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself.

In Shakespeare’s plays, the mourner hastening to bury his friend is all the time colliding with the reveller hastening to his wine.

Fate wings, with every wish, the afflictive dart, Each gift of nature, and each grace of art.

Nothing concentrates one’s mind so much as the realization that one is going to be hanged in the morning!

Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation...

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.