Samuel Johnson Quotes about Poverty

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All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

Samuel Johnson

Evil, Poverty, Argument

In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 1, p. 441 (20July 1763)

The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.

Samuel Johnson

Wisdom, Politics, Poverty

Samuel Johnson, Roger H. Lonsdale (2006). “Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets”, p.117, Oxford University Press

Riches exclude only one inconvenience,--that is, poverty.

Samuel Johnson

Riches, Poverty, Inconvenience

A man guilty of poverty easily believes himself suspected.

Samuel Johnson

Believe, Men, Poverty

Samuel Johnson (1827). “The Rambler”, p.158

He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.

Samuel Johnson

Extravagance, Poverty, Corruption

Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.21

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

Samuel Johnson

Men, Care, Poverty

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.205

It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without physic, and secure without a guard; to obtain from the bounty of nature, what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of artists and attendants, of flatterers and spies.

Samuel Johnson

Art, Healthy, Poverty

"The Rambler".

This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.

Samuel Johnson

Truth, Poverty, Truth Is

Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.52, Univ of California Press

He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.

Samuel Johnson

Thinking, Poverty, Poor

Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.210

The whole world is put in motion by the wish for riches and the dread of poverty.

Samuel Johnson

Wish, Poverty, World

Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.92

It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest. They support themselves by temporary expedients, and every day is lost in contriving for to-morrow.

Samuel Johnson

Support, Care, Poverty