What signifies protesting so against flattery when a person speaks wel…

Samuel Johnson
884 citations
What signifies protesting so against flattery when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know if true, let us rejoice in his good opinion if he lies, it is a proof at least that he loves more to please me, than to sit s ✨ Samuel Johnson (1836). Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson, p.58
Love Truth
17

More Author Quotes

A patriot is he whose public conduct is regulated by one single motive, the love of his country; who, as an agent in parliament, has, for himself, neither hope nor fear, neither kindness nor resentme … ▶
A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner. ✨ James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1786). Boswell's Life of Johnson: including Boswell's Journal of a tour of the Hebri … ▶
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern. ✨ In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 2, p. 452 (21 March 1776)
There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not creat … ▶
It is not indeed certain, that the most refined caution will find a proper time for bringing a man to the knowledge of his own failing, or the most zealous benevolence reconcile him to that judgment … ▶

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes