1. So quipped the famous writer Samuel Johnson.

2. Politeness is fictitious benevolence. Samuel Johnson 

3. Whoever envies another confesses his superiority. Samuel Johnson 

4. The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts. Samuel Johnson 

5. 28 Knowledge is more than equivalent to force---Samuel Johnson, English lexicographer.

6. No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures. Samuel Johnson 

7. Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Samuel Johnson 

8. 5 Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Samuel Johnson 

9. 20 Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. Samuel Johnson 

10. Explore 60 Acquaintances Quotes by authors including Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Samuel Johnson, and Oscar Wilde at BrainyQuote.

11. However, the phrase adverse from was originally prescribed by Samuel Johnson as the preferred way to use Averse.

12. 1749, Samuel Johnson, Irene And thou, the curst Accomplice of her treason, Declare thy message, and expect thy doom

13. 11 Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble. Samuel Johnson 

14. A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk. Samuel Johnson 

15. Abounding in matter, thoughts, or words; wordy: "I found our speech Copious without order, and energetic without rules" (Samuel Johnson)

16. *(Samuel Johnson) (1709-1784) *:I hope it is no very Cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received.; …

17. 7 Samuel Johnson, English writer and lexicographer (1709-, was once taken to task by a woman for recording "improper" words in his dictionary.

18. 9 In Britain, a lexicographer (dictionary author) named Samuel Johnson, who lived in the 18th century, coined the word "gray" and supported its use.

19. 21 Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent---Samuel Johnson, British lexicographer.

20. Boswellian ( comparative more Boswellian, superlative most Boswellian ) Of or pertaining to James Boswell (1740–1795), Scottish lawyer and writer, best known for his biography of Samuel Johnson

21. Shelley wrote in a biographical style popularised by the 18th-century critic Samuel Johnson in his Lives of the Poets (1779–81), combining secondary sources, memoir and anecdote, and authorial evaluation.

22. Samuel Johnson, Rasselas: Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate Civilities, go home, and dream of one another.

23. 1738, Samuel Johnson, "London: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal", lines 25-26, In pleasing dreams the Blissful age renew, And call Britannia's glories back to view;

24. British lexicographer Samuel Johnson also offered up that etymology in his 1755 Dictionary of the English Language, in which he defined Bonfire as "a fire made for some publick cause of triumph or

25. Examples of Clubbable in a Sentence a frequenter of coffeehouses, Samuel Johnson has been called the most Clubbable man in English literature Recent Examples on the Web Its top editors have tended to be tweedy, Clubbable …

26. Bibliotherapy is not exactly a new phenomenon: the 18th-century writer Dr Samuel Johnson, who suffered from depression, once said “the only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it”.

27. Gray, writing to Horace Walpole (August, 1757), said that the author seemed to have retrieved the true language of the stage, which has been lost for these hundred years, but Samuel Johnson held aloof from the general enthusiasm, and Averred …

28. Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice,(sentencedict .com) or its luster darkened by envy and malignity. Samuel Johnson