Quotes by Johnson, Samuel

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it. Ther >>

I gleaned jests at home from obsolete farces. >>

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is act >>

Quotations about Arts and Artists

Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle diff >>

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why >>

Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish a >>

No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.

Johnson, Samuel