Quotes by Johnson, Samuel

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is no >>

A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs. A Judge m >>

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rath >>

Quotations about Critics and Criticism

The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labor in the >>

It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not. >>

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really >>

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. An assault upon a town is a bad thing; but starving it is still worse.

Johnson, Samuel