Samuel Johnson Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

208 Famous Quotes by Samuel Johnson
“Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.”
Slander Quotes
“Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.”
Theory Quotes
“Conjecture as to things useful, is good; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle.”
Theory Quotes
“There is nothing too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.”
Trifles Quotes
“It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.”
Trust Quotes
“A vow is a snare for sin.”
Vow Quotes
“He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.”
Wit Quotes
“Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.”
Writer Quotes