Quotes by Johnson, Samuel

Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is ent >>

Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the firs >>

No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures. >>

Quotations about Writers and Writing

Easy writings curse is hard reading. >>

I perceived that to express those impressions, to write that essential >>

I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to ma >>

In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.

Johnson, Samuel