Quotes by Johnson, Samuel

Why, Sir, most schemes of political improvement are very laughable thi >>

A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of busine >>

If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, >>

Quotations about Suspicion

Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves. >>

Suspicion is the cancer of friendship. >>

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betraya >>

He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.

Johnson, Samuel