Top 21 Quotes About London Samuel Johnson
#1. The scarcely audible whisper of soft airs through the trees morning and evening, rain drops falling gently, and the murmur of drowsy surges far below, alone break the stillness.
Isabella L. Bird
#2. Troubadours have always been more important and influential than theologians and bishops
Brennan Manning
#3. Have you ever seen that movie "Despicable me," the first one? Gru, the main character has become a criminal, and in a simple way, the creators of the movie suggest that he became that way because he was neglected by his mother.
Rita Chester
#4. The charm of London is that you are never glad or sorry for ten minutes together; in the country you are one or the other for weeks.
Samuel Johnson
#5. A country gentleman should bring his lady to visit London as soon as he can, that they may have agreeable topicks for conversation when they are by themselves.
Samuel Johnson
#6. The woman does not work because the man tells her to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman works because she has told the man to work and he hasn't obeyed.
G.K. Chesterton
#7. The uniform necessities of human nature produce in a great measure uniformity of life, and for part of the day make one place like another; to dress and to undress, to eat and to sleep, are the same in London as in the country.
Samuel Johnson
#8. The happiness of London is not to be conceived but by those who have been in it.
Samuel Johnson
#9. Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing we are right to treat others as we would not want to be treated.
Alveda King
#11. London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.
Samuel Johnson
#12. I will venture to say there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit [in London], than in all the rest of the kingdom.
Samuel Johnson
#13. When a Man is tried of London, he is tired of life.
Samuel Johnson
#14. At the bottom of the poster was the famous Samuel Johnson quote I've now heard repeated, mangled, and paraphrased many times: When a man is tired of London he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Craig Taylor
#15. Once a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.
Samuel Johnson
#16. Tackling climate change is a collective endeavour, it means collective accountability and it's not too late
Christine Lagarde
#17. By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
Samuel Johnson
#18. Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.
Anita Roddick
#19. Everyday there are people in our world that do absolutely amazing things. People of all ages are very capable of doing tremendous, courageous things in spite of their fear.
Mairead Corrigan
#20. I do find London exciting. Much as I hate to agree with that tedious old git Samuel Johnson, and despite the pompous imbecility of his famous remark about when a man is tired of London he is tired of life ... I can't dispute it.
Bill Bryson
#21. What I fear from these reports is that the prevalent use of foul language has become an acceptable pattern in the schools, probably due in large part to the influence of TV and the general permissiveness in our society.
Gordon B. Hinckley
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