Author: Samuel Johnson

Cited by

• Robert Bolt (1)
  • IN: A man for all Seasons (1960) Fiction, Historial Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: He was the person of the greatest virtue these islands ever produced.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• Walter Scott (2)
  • IN: Count Robert of Paris (1832) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Leontines -- That power that kindly spreads The clouds, a signal of impending showers, To warn the wandering linnet to the shade, Beheld without concern expiring Greece, And not one prodigy foretold our fate. Demetrius. A thousand horrid prodigies foretold it. A feeble governemt, eluded laws, A factious populace, luxurious nobles, And all the maladies of sinking states, When public villainy, too strong for justice, Shows his bold front, the harbinger of ruin, Can brave Leontius call for airy wonders, Which cheats interpret, and which fools regard?
    FROM: Irene, (1749), Play, UK
  • IN: A Legend of Montrose (1819) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The march begins in military state, And nations on his eyes suspended wait; Stern famine guards the solitary coast, And winter barricades the realms of frost. He comes,—nor want, nor cold, his course delay.
    FROM: VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES, (1749), Poem, UK
• Alena Graedon (1)
  • IN: The Word Exchange (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I am not yet so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of the earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.
    FROM: preface to A Dictionary of the English Language, (1755), Book, UK
• Michael Crichton (2)
  • IN: Grave Descend (1970) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
    FROM: NULL, (1759), Essay, UK
• Miranda Dickinson (1)
  • IN: Take a Look at Me Now (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks
    FROM: NULL, (1759), Essay , UK
• Marcia Talley (1)
  • IN: The Last Refuge (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
    FROM: James Boswell, Life of Johnson, entry for Friday, April 7, 1775, (1791), Book, UK
• Ian Rankin (1)
  • IN: Fleshmarket Close (2004) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The climate of Edinburgh is such that the weak succumb young... and the strong envy them.
    FROM: Dr Johnson to Boswell, (None), Book, UK
• Elizabeth Helme (2)
  • IN: Instructive Rambles in London (1800) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: "Let us consider that youth is of no long duration ; and that in maturer age, when the enchantments of fancy shall cease, and phantoms of delight no more dance about us, we shall have no comfort but ths esteem of wise men, and the mean* of doing good"
    FROM: Prince of Abissinia, (1759), Novel, UK
  • IN: The Fruits of Reflectionl or, Moral remembrances on various subjects (1809) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The first Years of Man must make provision for the las!.- He that never thinks can never be wise."
    FROM: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia, (1759), NULL, UK
• Allison Brennan (1)
  • IN: Sudden Death (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
    FROM: A Dictionary of the English Language, (1755), Definition, UK
• J. D Robb (1)
  • IN: Imitation in Death (2003) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: No man ever yet became great by imitation.
    FROM: The Rambler, (1751), Book, UK
• Nora Roberts (1)
  • IN: The Hollow (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
    FROM: The Rambler, (1750), Book, UK
• Kathleen Antrim (1)
  • IN: Capital Offense (2002) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
    FROM: NULL, (1775), Speech, UK
• Clare Morrall (1)
  • IN: Natural Flights of the Human Mind (2006) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure but from hope to hope.
    FROM: The Rambler No. 2, (1750), Book, UK
• Charlotte Dacre (1)
  • IN: The Libertine (1807) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: .............. Are not these strange self delusions, and yet attested by common experience?... South
    FROM: A Dictionary of the English Language, (1755), Book, UK
• Mike Maden (1)
  • IN: Blue Warrior (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Knowledge is more than equivalent to force.
    FROM: The History of Rasselas, (1759), Short story, UK
• Tessa Harris (1)
  • IN: The Anatomist's Apprentice (2011) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
    FROM: NULL, (1769), Article, UK
• John Farris (1)
  • IN: High Bloods (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
    FROM: quoted in Johnsonian Miscellanies, (1897), Book, UK
• Matt Johnson (1)
  • IN: Wicked Game (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
    FROM: NULL, (1784), NULL, UK
• Toby Litt (1)
  • IN: Adventures in Capitalism (1997) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: If the world be promiscuously described...
    FROM: The Rambler, (1752), NULL, UK
• Tony Parsons (1)
  • IN: The Hanging Club (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Sir, executions are intended to draw spectators. If they do not draw spectators they don’t answer their purpose.
    FROM: NULL, (1783), NULL, UK
• Mary Meeke (1)
  • IN: Harcourt (1799) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Dishonour waits on perfidy. The villain Shou'd blush to think a falsehood; i Tis crime Of cowards.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Saying, UK
• Joseph Lloyd Carr (1)
  • IN: A Month in the Country (1980) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: A novel - a small tale, generally of love
    FROM: A Dictionary of the English Language, (1755), Book, UK