Quotes by Samuel Johnson

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

#Marriage

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst...

#Character, #Influence, #Marriage

It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination

#Marriage

The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread...

#Mind

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

#Music

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice

#Music

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense....

#Samuel Johnson

The animadversions of critics are commonly such as may easily provoke the sedatest writer to...

#Samuel Johnson

If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is...

#Criticism

The duty of criticism is neither to depreciate nor dignify by partial representations, but to...

#Criticism

Critics, like the rest of mankind, are very frequently misled by interest

#Criticism

We owe few of the rules of writing to the acuteness of critics, who have...

#Criticism