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Samuel Johnson Quotes about Glory

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The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1786). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.156

Glory, the casual gift of thoughtless crowds! Glory, the bribe of avaricious virtue!

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: with Murphy's essay”, p.367