1030 ordspråk av Samuel Johnson

GB  Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson föddes den September 18th 1709 och dog den 13 December 1784 - English writer
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 I can't drink a little, therefore I never touch it. Abstinance is as easy for me as tempreance would be difficult.

 I cannot forbear to wish, that this commotion (in the colonies) may end without bloodshed, and that the rebels may be subdued by terror rather than by violence; and, therefore, recommend such a force as may take away, not only the power, but the hope

 I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences you are to tell the truth.

 I do not like much to see a Whig in any dress; but I hate to see a Whig in a parson's gown.

 I found you essay to be good and original. However, the part that was original was not good and the part that was good was not original.

 I gleaned jests at home from obsolete farces.

 I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

 I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

 I have always said, the first Whig was the Devil

 I have ever since (his wife's death) seemed to myself broken off from mankind; a kind of solitary wanderer in the wild of life, without any direction, or fixed point of view: a gloomy gazer on the world to which I have little relation

 I have found men more kind than I expected, and less just

 I have heard him assert, that a tavern chair was the throne of human felicity

 I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it

 I have observed, that in comedy, the best actor plays the part of the droll, while some scrub rogue is made the hero, or fine gentleman. So, in this farce of life, wise men pass their time in mirth, whilst fools only are serious.

 I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.


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