Quotes by Johnson, Samuel

Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives t >>

So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, >>

Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man strugg >>

Quotations about Critics and Criticism

In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine ref >>

Blame is safer than praise. >>

There are two insults no human will endure. The assertion that he has >>

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.

Johnson, Samuel