Quotations
Famous Quotations
Sometimes it is difficult to be motivated and inspired to write a review, a persuasive formless essay, an article of reflexive investigation, etc. Plus, it can be difficult to find the right words that will better describe your ideas. DedicatedWriters.com is your top destination, since it provides students with an updated database of more than 150.000 quotations and proverbs of famous inventors, sportsmen, philosophers, artists, celebrities, businessmen, and the authors who certainly enriched and strengthen the world. This is perfect to become inspired and write book reports, essays, movie reviews, research papers, etc.
Try out our free search option and stay tuned.
Samuel Johnson Quotes
«It is, perhaps, not considered through how many hands a book often passes, before it comes into those of the reader; or what part of the profit each hand must retain, as a motive for transmitting it to the next»
«There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible»
«She no more thought of the play out of which her part was taken, than a shoemaker thinks of the skin, out of which the piece of leather, of which he is making a pair of shoes, is cut»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
leather, piece of leather, play out, shoemaker, shoemakers
«Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation; but no sooner does he take a pen in his hand, than it becomes a torpedo to him, and benumbs all his faculties»
«It often happens that those who in their lives were applauded and admired, are laid at last in the ground without the common honor of a stone; because by those excellences with which many were delighted, none had been obliged, and, though they had ma»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
admired, applauded, common ground, delighted
«Boswell: Is not the Giant's Causeway worth seeing? Johnson: Worth seeing? yes; but not worth going to see»
«A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation»