Zitate von Samuel Johnson
Ein bekanntes Zitat von Samuel Johnson:
Verleumdung unterscheidet sich von allen anderen Kränkungen durch folgenden entsetzlichen Umstand: wer sie begeht, kann sie nie wieder gutmachen.
Informationen über Samuel Johnson
Gelehrter, Lexikograf, Schriftsteller, "The vanity of human wishes", "London", "Die Debatten des Senats zu Liliput", "History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia" (England, 1709 - 1784).
Samuel Johnson · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
Samuel Johnson wäre heute 314 Jahre, 7 Monate, 2 Tage oder 114.901 Tage alt.
Geboren am 18.09.1709 in Lichfield
Gestorben am 13.12.1784 in London
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Weitere 565 Zitate von Samuel Johnson
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Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
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Riches exclude only one inconvenience, and that is poverty.
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Round numbers are always false.
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Scarcely anything awakens attention like a tale of cruelty. The writer of news never fails to tell how the enemy murdered children and ravished virgins.
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Shakespeare has united the powers of exciting laughter and sorrow not only in one mind but in one composition . . . That this is a practice contrary to the rules of criticism will be readily allowed; but there is always an appeal open from criticism to nature.
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Sir John, Sir, is a very unclubbable man.
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Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
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Sir, I have two very cogent reasons for not printing any list of subscribers; - one, that I have lost all the names, - the other, that I have spent all the money.
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Sir, I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
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Sir, no man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
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Sir, the insolence of wealth will creep out.
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Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea.
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Sir, we are a nest of singing birds.
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Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.
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Sir, your wife, under pretence of keeping a bawdy-house, is a receiver of stolen goods.
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So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
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So it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
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Solitude excludes pleasure, and does not always secure peace.
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Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.
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Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away.