2,116 Quotes by Samuel Johnson

All envy is proportionate to desire.

There are in every age new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.

No man can enjoy happiness without thinking that he enjoys it.

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

The limbs will quiver and move after the soul is gone.

Every desire is a viper in the bosom, who while he was chill was harmless; but when warmth gave him strength, exerted it in poison.

Of riches it is not necessary to write the praise. Let it, however, be remembered that he who has money to spare has it always in his power to benefit others, and of such power a good man must always be desirous.

The animadversions of critics are commonly such as may easily provoke the sedatest writer to some quickness of resentment and asperity of reply.

He that travels in theory has no inconveniences.