“Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.”
1776
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)
Samuel Johnson: Citáty anglicky (strana 16)
Samuel Johnson byl anglický spisovatel. Citáty anglicky.
Samuel Johnson:
418
citátů
306
lajků
The Life of Edmund Smith
Lives of the English Poets (1779–81)
Samuel Johnson
kniha
The Plays of William Shakespeare
The Plays of William Shakespeare, Vol. I (1765), Preface
Samuel Johnson
kniha
A Dictionary of the English Language
A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)
Samuel Johnson
kniha
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Zdroj: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 48
“The potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.”
1780?
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)
1750 Journal
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I
“Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.”
Letter from Johnson to John Taylor, 18 August 1763. The Yale Book of Quotations edited by Fred R. Shapiro, pg 400.
“Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.”
April 10, 1778
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
“You see they'd have fitted him to a T.”
1784
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)
“All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to shew how much he can spare.”
April 25, 1778, p. 403
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
“Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.”
May 8, 1781
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV
“I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.”
1763
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)
"It's written by Charles Grosvenor Osgood (1871-1964), as part of a 1917 preface to Boswell's 'Life of Johnson.'"
The Samuel Johnson Sound Bite Page http://www.samueljohnson.com/apocryph.html#2 Retrieved 2013-07-07
Misattributed
“The reciprocal civility of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life.”
The Life of Sir Thomas Browne (1756) http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/browne.html