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Samuel Johnson Quotes about Friendship

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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

Inspirational, Friendship, Book

Your aspirations are your possibilities.

Friendship, Dream, Attitude

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

Friendship, Confidence, Honesty

Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.113

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

Love, Friendship, Food

Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.175

Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. he whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.

Friendship, Pain, Kindness

In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 4, p. 115 (May 1781)

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. What we have missed long enough to want it, we value more when it is regained; but that which has been lost till it is forgotten will be found at last with little gladness, and with still less if a substitute has supplied the place.

Friendship, Love Is, Like Love

Samuel Johnson (1810). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An essay on his life and genius”, p.89

Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship.

Friendship, Pleasure, Higher

Samuel Johnson, William Page (1860). “Life and Writings”, p.279

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

Friendship, Life And Love, Love Is

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson: The Adventurer and Idler”, p.216

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Friendship, Positive, Looks

In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 4, p. 374 (November 1784)

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Friendship, Wise, Silence

James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.106

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Love, Friendship, Men

Samuel Johnson (2014). “The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume II: 1773-1776”, p.267, Princeton University Press

The friendship which is to be practised or expected by common mortals, must take its rise from mutual pleasure, and must end when the power ceases of delighting each other.

Friendship, Common, Pleasure

Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi, James Boswell (1787). “The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Late Productions of Mrs. Piozzi, Mr. Boswell, ...”, p.97

To those who have lived long together, everything heard and everything seen recalls some pleasure communicated, some benefit conferred, some petty quarrel or some slight endearment. Esteem of great powers, or amiable qualities newly discovered may embroider a day or a week, but a friendship of twenty years is interwoven with the texture of life.

Friendship, Years, Long

James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1888). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”

He endearing elegance of female friendship.

Friendship, Female, Elegance

Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works”, p.50

Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend.

Friendship, Names, Innocent

On the death of Mr Levett, in James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 4, p. 137 (20 January 1782)

A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

Friendship, Men, Should

Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 1755)

Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation.

Friendship, Obligation, Sequels

'The Lives of the English Poets' (1779-81) 'James Thomson'

The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.

Funny, Friendship, Humor

Samuel Johnson (1848). “The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.273

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