Quotes by Johnson, Samuel

Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must al >>

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are m >>

Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it o >>

Quotations about Biography

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography >>

A biography is like a handshake down the years, that can become an arm >>

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolera >>

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

Johnson, Samuel