Samuel Johnson Quotes about Literature

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Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.

Lexicographer, Literature, Dictionary

Samuel Johnson, John Walker (1835). “Johnson's English Dictionary”, p.559

The richest author that ever grazed the common of literature.

Literature, Common

Dr John Campbell, in James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 1, p. 418 n. 1 (1 July 1763)

Nothing odd will do long. Tristram Shandy did not last.

Long, Literature, Lasts

In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 2, p. 449 (20 March 1776)

I respect Millar, sir: he has raised the price of literature.

Literature, Raised

"The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides".