„Patriotismus ist die letzte Zuflucht des Halunken.“
"The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D." von James Boswell, Eintrag vom 7. April 1775. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1791. Band 1, S. 211
Original engl. "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."
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"The Life of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D." von James Boswell, Eintrag vom 31. Juli 1763. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1791. Band 1, S. 112
Original engl. "Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all."
Quelle: Übersetzung Wikiquote
"The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D." von James Boswell, Eintrag vom 20. September 1777. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1791. Band 2, S. 160
Original engl. "When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford."
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“Language is the dress of thought.”
The Life of Cowley
Lives of the English Poets (1779–81)
September 19, 1777, p. 351, often misquoted as being hanged in the morning.
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
Quelle: The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 3
“Goldsmith, however, was a man who whatever he wrote, did it better than any other man could do.”
1778
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)
“Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.”
Letter to Boswell. Dec. 8, 1763
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.”
Samuel Johnson The Idler
No. 39 (January 13, 1759)
The Idler (1758–1760)
“I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.”
April 15, 1778, p. 392
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
Samuel Johnson buch A Dictionary of the English Language
A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)
“A man might write such stuff for ever, if he would abandon his mind to it.”
1783, p. 501
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV
April 28, 1778, p. 404
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
Letter to Hester Thrale (12 April 1781) http://books.google.com/books?id=184WAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA736
“The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something to-morrow which I never saw before.”
Samuel Johnson buch The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Quelle: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 47
1775, p. 273
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II
“The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.”
1780
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV
December 13, 1784 (Last words)
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV
July 6, 1763, p. 120
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I
“CLUB — An assembly of good fellows, meeting under certain conditions.”
Samuel Johnson buch A Dictionary of the English Language
A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)
Quelle: Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Lines added to Goldsmith's Traveller
February 7, 1754 (Letter to Lord Chesterfield)
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I
“OATS — A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.”
Samuel Johnson buch A Dictionary of the English Language
A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)
“Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.”
The Life of Pope http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5101 <br class="br">Lives of the English Poets (1779–81)
The Life of Gray
Lives of the English Poets (1779–81)
Quelle: Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson (1786), p. 266
The Life of Milton
Lives of the English Poets (1779–81)
Prologue at the Opening of Drury Lane Theatre (1747)
August 6, 1763, p. 134
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I
“A frame of adamant, a soul of fire,
No dangers fright him, and no labors tire.”
Quelle: Vanity of Human Wishes (1749), Line 193
