Quotes by Johnson, Samuel

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. >>

Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment. >>

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

Quotations about Writers and Writing

I always write a good first line, but I have trouble in writing the ot >>

Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rati >>

An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother >>

I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.

Johnson, Samuel