Quotes by Samuel Johnson

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do any thing.

— Samuel Johnson

  ​ Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards.

— Samuel Johnson

From Thee, great God: we spring, to Thee we tend, Path, motive, guide, original, and end.

— Samuel Johnson

The diminutive chains of habit are seldom heavy enough to be felt, till they are too strong to be broken.

— Samuel Johnson

Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy; affectation, part of the chosen trappings of folly! the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a fop. Contempt is the proper punishment of affectation, and detestation the just consequence of hypocrisy.

— Samuel Johnson

He that voluntarily continues ignorant is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.

— Samuel Johnson

I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit as poisoning the sources of eternal truth.

— Samuel Johnson