Samuel Johnson Quotes about Design

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Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

Samuel Johnson

Design, Easy, Difficult

Samuel Johnson (1803). “The History of Rasselas, Etc. [With a Life of Dr. Johnson.]”, p.71

The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.

Samuel Johnson

History, Design, Littles

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1810). “The Works of Samuel Johnson”, p.398

It is not difficult to conceive, however, that for many reasons a man writes much better than he lives. For without entering into refined speculations, it may be shown much easier to design than to perform. A man proposes his schemes of life in a state of abstraction and disengagement, exempt from the enticements of hope, the solicitations of affection, the importunities of appetite, or the depressions of fear.

Samuel Johnson

Writing, Men, Design

Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.25

Complaints are vain; we will try to. do better another time. To-morrow and to-morrow. A few designs and a few failures, and the time of designing is past.

Samuel Johnson

Failure, Past, Design

Samuel Johnson (1892). “Letters of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.”, Ayer Company Pub

None of the projects or designs which exercise the mind of man are equally subject to obstructions and disappointments with the pursuit of fame.

Samuel Johnson

Disappointment, Exercise, Design

Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.217

Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections their author.

Samuel Johnson

Men, Design, Imperfection

Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Chalmers, Gilbert Wakefield (1806). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton: Illustrations, and Critical and Explanatory Remarks, by Johnson, Wakefield, A. Chalmers ... and Others; to which are Added, Now First Published, Some Original Letters, with Additional Observations, and Memoirs of the Life of the Author”, p.16