Samuel Johnson Quotes


The complaint, therefore, that all topicks are preoccupied, is nothing more than the murmur of ignorance or idleness, by which some discourage others, and some themselves; the mutability of mankind will always furnish writers with new images, and the luxuriance of fancy may always embellish them with new decorations.


Citations

Johnson, Samuel. The Rambler. J. Payne and J. Bouquet, 1752.

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Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
  • Born: September 18, 1709
  • Died: December 13, 1784
  • Nationality: English
  • Profession: Poet, Playwright, Essayist, Moralist, Literary Critic, Biographer, Editor, Lexicographer

Samuel Johnson, often referred to as Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. Religiously, he was a devout Anglican, and politically a committed Tory. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes Johnson as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history". He is the subject of James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson, described by Walter Jackson Bate as "the most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature".