Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly

Quote by Samuel Johnson

Topics: Cheating Quotes

Dr Blair . . . asked . . . whether he thought any man of...

Dr Blair . . . asked . . . whether he thought any man of...

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even...

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even...

Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author

Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author

The accidental prescriptions of authority, when time has procured them veneration, are often confounded with...

The accidental prescriptions of authority, when time has procured them veneration, are often confounded with...

Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.

Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.

The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy...

The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy...

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Worth seeing? yes; but not worth going to see

Worth seeing? yes; but not worth going to see

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love,...

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love,...

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

Language is the dress of thought.

Language is the dress of thought.

Controversies merely speculative are of small importance in themselves, however they may have sometimes heated...

Controversies merely speculative are of small importance in themselves, however they may have sometimes heated...

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from...

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from...

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

When a man marries a widow his jealousies revert to the past: no man is...

When a man marries a widow his jealousies revert to the past: no man is...

The great source of pleasure is variety

The great source of pleasure is variety

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

My friend I consider you my brother. I know we are not blood, and blood...

My friend I consider you my brother. I know we are not blood, and blood...

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better than...

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better than...

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to...

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to...