“Celui qui ne sait pas où aller n'a aucune hâte de bouger.”
He knows not wither to go is in not haste to move.
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Samuel Johnson citations célèbres
“Une grande confiance en soi est la première condition des grandes entreprises.”
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
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“Les crimes les plus exécrables sont parfois commis sans aucune tentation apparente.”
The most execrable crimes are sometimes commited without apparent temptation.
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He puts his words out of the common order, seeming to think, with some later candidates for fame, that not to write prose is certainly to write poetry.
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Of Dr.Goldsmith he said, "No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had.
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Do not accustom yourself to view debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity. Poverty takes away so many means of doing good, and produces so much inability to resist evil, both natural and moral, that it is by all virtuous means to be avoided.
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As I know more about mankind, I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man, upon easier terms that I was formerly.
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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Samuel Johnson: Citations en anglais
April 17, 1778, p. 396
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
“The endearing elegance of female friendship.”
Samuel Johnson
livre
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Source: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 46
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 613
Actually said by Charles de Gaulle, on leaving his presidency, as quoted inLife' (9 May 1969)
Misattributed
“Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured and little to be enjoyed.”
Samuel Johnson
livre
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Source: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 11
March 28, 1776, p. 296
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
“Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate,
Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?”
Source: Vanity of Human Wishes (1749), Line 345
1763
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)
August 31 and September 23, 1773
Also quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1785)
“Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.”
September 17, 1773
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1785)
Samuel Johnson
livre
A Dictionary of the English Language
A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)
“Sir, you have but two topicks, yourself and me. I am sick of both.”
May 1776 http://books.google.com/books?id=8DcUAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Sir+you+have+but+two+topicks+yourself+and+me+I+am+sick+of+both%22&pg=PA53#v=onepage, p. 313
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
“I am a great friend to public amusements; for they keep people from vice.”
1772
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)
The Patriot (1774)
“Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea.”
When asked by Maurice Morgann whom he considered to be the better poet — Smart or Derrick, 1783, p. 504
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV
“A man will turn over half a library to make one book.”
April 6, 1775
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II
“The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.”
1778
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)
Source: Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson (1786), p. 206
“English superiority and American obedience.”
As quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-55786-664-3 (1994), by Robert DeMaria, Jr., Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 252–256.
“Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.”
September 20, 1773
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1785)
“Let observation with extensive view
Survey mankind, from China to Peru.”
Source: Vanity of Human Wishes (1749), Line 1; comparable to: "All human race, from China to Peru, Pleasure, howe’er disguis’d by art, pursue", Thomas Warton, Universal Love of Pleasure
“The limbs will quiver and move after the soul is gone.”
Northcote, 487
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Johnsoniana
Winter, An Ode. The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1787), p. 355
“To a poet nothing can be useless.”
Samuel Johnson
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The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Source: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 10
Source: Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson (1786), p. 111
“The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.”
Life of Milton
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified, and new prejudices to be opposed.”
Samuel Johnson
The Rambler
No. 86 (12 January 1751)
The Rambler (1750–1752)
