Life and Conversations of Dr. Samuel Johnson Quotes

“A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see.”
― Samuel Johnson, Life and Conversations of Dr. Samuel Johnson: (Founded Chiefly Upon Boswell).

“Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity; so they have betaken, themselves to errour. Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.”
― Samuel Johnson, Life and Conversations of Dr. Samuel Johnson: (Founded Chiefly Upon Boswell).

“Babies do not want to hear about babies; they like to be told of giants and castles.”
― Samuel Johnson, Life and Conversations of Dr. Samuel Johnson: (Founded Chiefly Upon Boswell).