Samuel Johnson on Identity
Browse 6 quotations attributed to Samuel Johnson, catalogued under identity, with dates where available.
This page displays 6 quotations attributed to Samuel Johnson and filed under "identity" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to Samuel Johnson, entry #22014: "I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night; and then the nap takes me."
Attributed to Samuel Johnson, entry #161281: "Sir, you have but two topicks, yourself and me. I am sick of both."
6 Quotes by Samuel Johnson on Identity
"I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night; and then the nap takes me."
"Sir, you have but two topicks, yourself and me. I am sick of both."
"All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to shew how much he can spare."
"This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to."
"He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others."
"A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself."