Quote #99
His [David Garrick's] death has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.
More from Samuel Johnson
- The Churchyard abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo.
- It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.
- He delighted to tread upon the brink of meaning.
- There is in this world no real delight (excepting those of sensuality), but exchange of ideas in conversation.
- Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the …
- If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis a proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.
- New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.
- He was a very good hater.