Wretched un-idea'd girls.
Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
Source: Life of Johnson (Boswell). Vol. i. Chap. x. 1752.
Contributed by: Zaady
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
Read over your compositions and, when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Sir, no man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
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.
A man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it.
Source: Life of Johnson (Boswell). Vol. iv. Chap. ii. 1773.
No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
Source: Life of Johnson (Boswell). Vol. vi. Chap. iii. 1776.
Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.
Source: Boswell’s Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
This man [Chesterfield], I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among Lords.
Source: Life of Johnson (Boswell). Vol. ii. Chap. i. 1754.
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