Samuel Johnson Quotes About House

• No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

  Samuel Johnson

  Money, Home, House

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.41

• If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.

  Samuel Johnson

  Thinking, House, Vices

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 14 July 1763)

• 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)

• What is the reason that women servants ... have much lower wages than men servants ... when in fact our female house servants work much harder than the male?

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, House, Wages

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