Samuel Johnson Quotes About Hate

• Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Retirement, Sorry

  On Jeremiah Markland, in James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 4, p. 161, n. 3 (10 October 1782)

• Men hate more steadily than they love.

  Samuel Johnson

  Love, Hate, Men

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.146

• Some claim a place in the list of patriots, by an acrimonious and unremitting opposition to the court. This mark is by no means infallible. Patriotism is not necessarily included in rebellion. A man may hate his king, yet not love his country.

  Samuel Johnson

  Country, Kings, Hate

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1838). “Works”, p.423

• You despise a man for avarice; but you do not hate him.

  Samuel Johnson

  Hate, Men, Despise

• Age is rarely despised but when it is, contemptible.

  Samuel Johnson

  Hate, Age, Despise

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.272

• No man hates him at whom he can laugh.

  Samuel Johnson

  Hate, Men, Hate Him

• The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected; and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an individual weight of calumny will be super-added.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Hate, Real

• I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

  Samuel Johnson

  Funny, Hate, Integrity

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1824). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished”, p.6

• The happiness of building lasted but a little while, for though I love to spend, I hate to be cheated; and I soon found, that to build is to be robbed.

  Samuel Johnson

  Hate, Deceit, Found

  "The Idler: With Additional Essays".

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