Quotes from Samuel Johnson
Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards.
- Samuel Johnson
If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.
- Samuel Johnson
The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety.
- Samuel Johnson
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
- Samuel Johnson
When any fit of anxiety, or gloominess, or perversion of mind lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints, but exert your whole care to hide it; by endeavouring to hide it you will drive it away. Be always busy.
- Samuel Johnson
If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.
- Samuel Johnson
He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.
- Samuel Johnson
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
- Samuel Johnson
A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
- Samuel Johnson
Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
- Samuel Johnson
Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts.
- Samuel Johnson
Among many parallels which men of imagination have drawn between the natural and moral state of the world, it has been observed that happiness as well as virtue consists in mediocrity.
- Samuel Johnson