Samuel Johnson Quotes About Friends

• Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

  Samuel Johnson

  Love, Friendship, Men

  Samuel Johnson (2014). “The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume II: 1773-1776”, p.267, Princeton University Press

• The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.

  Samuel Johnson

  Funny, Friendship, Humor

  Samuel Johnson (1848). “The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.273

• If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 1755)

• I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

  Samuel Johnson

  Friendship, Positive, Looks

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 4, p. 374 (November 1784)

• He endearing elegance of female friendship.

  Samuel Johnson

  Friendship, Female, Elegance

  Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works”, p.50

• An old friend never can be found, and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.

  Samuel Johnson

  Friends, Lost Friend, Found

  Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi (2013). “Letters to and from the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: To Which Are Added Some Poems Never Before Printed”, p.326, Cambridge University Press

• Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliates the other's failings because they are his own.

  Samuel Johnson

  Friends, Failing, Manners

  Samuel Johnson (1827). “The Rambler”, p.167

• How few of his friends' houses would a man choose to be at when he is sick.

  Samuel Johnson

  Friends, Men, Sick

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 4, p. 181 (1783)

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