Samuel Johnson Quotes About Glory

• It is not the desire of new acquisitions, but the glory of conquests, that fires the soldier's breast; as indeed the town is seldom worth much, when it has suffered the devastations of a siege.

  Samuel Johnson

  Fire, Soldier, Desire

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.”, p.3

• The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, People, Glory

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1786). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.156

• Disease generally begins that equality which death completes; the distinctions which set one man so much above another are very little perceived in the gloom of a sick chamber, where it will be vain to expect entertainment from the gay, or instruction from the wise; where all human glory is obliterated, the wit is clouded, the reasoner perplexed, and the hero subdued; where the highest and brightest of mortal beings finds nothing left him but the consciousness of innocence.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Hero, Gay

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.290

• Glory, the casual gift of thoughtless crowds!
  Glory, the bribe of avaricious virtue!

  Samuel Johnson

  Crowds, Virtue, Glory

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: with Murphy's essay”, p.367

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