8 beautiful quotes by Samuel Johnson. Click any quote to view, download and share it as an image.
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Samuel Johnson
“Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did ...
“There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.”
“A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.”
“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.”
“My congratulations to you, sir. Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, a...
“The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to mak...
“I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.”
“I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works....
