Quotes by Samuel Johnson

It is no less a proof of eminence to have many enemies than many friends

#Pleasure

No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures

#Poetry

To a poet nothing can be useless

#Politeness

Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience...

#Politics

Most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things

#Politics

The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of...

#Funny, #Quotations

Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author

#Quotations

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

#Quotations

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language

#Quotations

Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood

#Rejection

It is peculiarly the business of a monitor to keep his own reputation untainted, lest...

#Reputation

The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket;...

#Reputation