Samuel Johnson

Lots of quotes, organized.

The Samuel Johnson Sound Bite Page

Including misattributions

Samuel Johnson has a lot of great quotations, but sometimes he gets more credit than he deserves. I've found a number in books or on the Internet which don't really seem to be from him. Sometimes they are close to something he's said. In other instances, I just can't find anything to suggest they originate with him. They don't appear in Primary Source Media's CD-ROM of Johnson's works (which also includes Boswell, Piozzi, Hawkins, Burney, Hill's "Johnsonian Miscellanies," O.M. Brack's "Early Biographies," et al -- it's extremely comprehensive). In the interest of completeness, I'm putting them here on this page. (Links take you to discussion about the misattribution.)

• The road to hell is paved with good intentions.