Samuel Johnson Failing Quotations

Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliate the other's failings because they are his own.

A fallible being will fail somewhere.

Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliates the other's failings because they are his own.

Politeness is fictitious benevolence. Depend upon it, the want of it never fails to produce something disagreeable to one or other.

The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been passed over without consideration.

Reproof should not exhaust its power upon petty failings.

Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.