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Samuel Johnson Quotes

«Unless a woman has an amorous heart,she is a dull companion»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: amorous
«A coxcomb is ugly all over with the effectation of a fine gentleman.»
«A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone.»
«A Frenchman must be always talking, whether he knows anything of the matter or not; an Englishman is content to say nothing, when he has nothing to say.»
«About things on which the public thinks long it commonly thinks right.»
«But these were the dreams of a poet doomed at last to wake a lexicographer.»
«Consider, Sir, how should you like, though conscious of your innocence, to be tried before a jury for a capital crime, once a week.»
«Dublin, though a place much worse than London, is not so bad as Iceland.»
«It is thus that mutual cowardice keeps us in peace. Were one half of mankind brave and one cowards, the brave would be always beating the cowards. Were all brave, they would lead a very uneasy life; all would be continually fighting; but being all cowards, we go on very well.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: uneasy
«We could not have had a better dinner had there been a Synod of Cooks.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: cooks, synod