502 Quotations by Samuel Johnson
- 141. Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: b ...
- 142. Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without ...
- 143. Hope itself is a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.
- 144. Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with ...
- 145. I am a great friend to public amusements, for they keep the people from vice.
- 146. I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
- 147. I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in st ...
- 148. I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and ...
- 149. I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.
- 150. I found your essay to be good and original; however, the part that was original was not good, and th ...
- 151. I gleaned jests at home from obsolete farces.
- 152. I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know than all the allegorical paintings they can show ...
- 153. I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
- 154. I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature to make any man's ...
- 155. I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
- 156. I have found you an argument: but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
- 157. I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and s ...
- 158. I have thought of a pulley to raise me gradually; but that would give me pain, as it would counterac ...
- 159. I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, ...
- 160. I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much ...
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