Samuel Johnson Quotes About Self Love

• Pope had been flattered till he thought himself one of the moving powers of the system of life. When he talked of laying down his pen, those who sat round him intreated and implored; and self-love did not suffer him to suspect that they went away and laughed.

  Samuel Johnson

  Moving, Self, Suffering

  Samuel Johnson (1800). “Lives”, p.531

• Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.

  Samuel Johnson

  Love, Self, Doe

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.268

• Self-love is a busy prompter.

  Samuel Johnson

  Love Is, Self, Self Love

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Waller, Butler, Rochester, Roscommon, Otway, Pomfret, Dorset, Stepney, J. Philips, Walsh, Dryden”, p.469

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