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Samuel Johnson Quotes

«Notes are often necessary, but they are necessary evils.»
«Shakespeare never has six lines together without a fault.»
«If a man who turnips cries, / Cry not when his father dies, / 'Tis a proof that he had rather/ Have a turnip than a father.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: cries, turnip, turnips
«If . . . I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.»
«Lexicographer. A writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.»
«When a butcher tells you his heart bleeds for his country, he has, in fact, no uneasy feeling.»
«I shall long to see the miseries of the world, since the sight of them is necessary to happiness.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: miseries
«A fellow who makes no figure in company, and has a mind as narrow as the neck of a vinegar cruet.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: cruet, vinegar
«It is better to live rich than to die rich.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Wealth
«The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: disclose