Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not
original and the part that is original is not good.
-- Samuel Johnson
Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not
original and the part that is original is not good.
-- Samuel Johnson
Your manuscript is both good and original;
but the part that is good is not original,
and the part that is original is not good.
-- Samuel Johnson
What is written without effort is in general read without
pleasure.
-- Samuel Johnson
He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others.
-- Samuel Johnson
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over
the world.
-- Samuel Johnson
The applause of a single human being is of great
consequence.
-- Samuel Johnson
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.
-- Samuel Johnson
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
- Samuel Johnson
Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not
original and the part that is original is not good.
-- Samuel Johnson
“Sherry [Thomas Sheridan] is dull, naturally dull; but it must have
taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an
excess of stupidity, sir, is not in Nature.”
-- Samuel Johnson
When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.
-- Samuel Johnson
I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know
how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson
Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero
... must drink brandy.
-- Samuel Johnson
Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not
original and the part that is original is not good.
-- Samuel Johnson
A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
-- Samuel Johnson
I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty,
I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their silence.
-- Samuel Johnson
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his
mind wonderfully.
-- Samuel Johnson
Sherry [Thomas Sheridan] is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken
him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of
stupidity, sir, is not in Nature.
-- Samuel Johnson
Round Numbers are always false.
-- Samuel Johnson
It is better to live rich than to die rich.
-- Samuel Johnson
Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to
everything.
-- Samuel Johnson
“Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.” (Samuel Johnson)
A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
-- Samuel Johnson
I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty,
I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their silence.
-- Samuel Johnson
He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others.
-- Samuel Johnson
I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know
how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his
mind wonderfully.
-- Samuel Johnson
Sherry [Thomas Sheridan] is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken
him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of
stupidity, sir, is not in Nature.
-- Samuel Johnson
Round Numbers are always false.
-- Samuel Johnson
It is better to live rich than to die rich.
-- Samuel Johnson