502 Quotations by Samuel Johnson
- 61. Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.
- 62. Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.
- 63. Christmas is the family time, the good time of the year
- 64. Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
- 65. Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
- 66. Clear your mind of "can't."
- 67. Composition is, for the most part, an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the ...
- 68. Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it ...
- 69. Courage is the greatest of all the virtues. Because if you haven't courage, you may not have an oppo ...
- 70. Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom natur ...
- 71. Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
- 72. Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades t ...
- 73. Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
- 74. Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
- 75. Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
- 76. Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagre ...
- 77. Despair is criminal.
- 78. Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go ...
- 79. Difficulties do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.
- 80. Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as m ...
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