1159 ordspråk av Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson föddes den September 18th 1709 och dog den 13 December 1784 - English writer
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 Courtesy and good humor are often found with little real worth |
| Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense |
| Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic. |
| Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well. |
| Critics, like the rest of mankind, are very frequently misled by interest |
| Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast. |
| Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. |
| Dear Bathurst . . . was a man to my very heart's content: he hated a fool, and he hated a rogue, and he hated a Whig; he was a very good hater. |
| Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, / And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; / There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, / Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. |
| Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him. |
| Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully |
| Deviation from nature is deviation from happiness |
| Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true |
| Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible. |
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