Samuel Johnson: Man (page 4)

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“To convince any man against his will is hard, but to please him against his will is justly pronounced by Dryden to be above the reach of human abilities.”

Samuel Johnson The Rambler

No. 93
The Rambler (1750–1752)

“A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.”

Samuel Johnson

April 24, 1779, p. 424
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III

Art

“No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had.”

Samuel Johnson

On Oliver Goldsmith1780
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV

“This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.”

Samuel Johnson

1763
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)

“Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment.”

Samuel Johnson

Prayers and Meditations, No. 1770 (1785)

Nature , Time

“My friend was of opinion that when a man of rank appeared in that character [as an author], he deserved to have his merit handsomely allowed.”

Samuel Johnson

May 1781
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV

Appearance

“Were it not for imagination, Sir, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a Duchess.”

Samuel Johnson

May 9, 1778, p. 409
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III

Imagination , Happiness