Quotes by Johnson, Samuel

It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrain >>

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen. >>

The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is >>

Quotations about Envy

Rust consumes iron and envy consumes itself. >>

Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another >>

Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred. >>

His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.

Johnson, Samuel