Quotes by Samuel Johnson

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

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

#Criticism

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last

#Passion

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own...

#Samuel Johnson

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

#Samuel Johnson