Quote #172
I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.
More from Samuel Johnson
- Were it not for imagination, Sir, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a Duchess.
- Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
- Wine makes a man more pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.
- A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
- All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to shew how much he can spare.
- Worth seeing? yes; but not worth going to see.
- The insolence of wealth will creep out.
- If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.