Quotes by Johnson, Samuel

His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks >>

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability. >>

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not >>

Quotations about Wit

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion. >>

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no >>

Wit is brushwood; judgment timber; the one gives the greatest flame, a >>

He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

Johnson, Samuel