2,116 Quotes by Samuel Johnson

The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.

It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote.

Wasting a fortune is evaporation by a thousand imperceptible means.

What is twice read is commonly better remembered that what is transcribed.

The process is the reality.

Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize in the imagination, to raise phantoms of horror, or to beset life with supernumerary distresses.

A few men are sufficient to broach falsehoods, which are afterwards innocently diffused by successive relaters.

You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.

Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.