Johnson Met

Famous quotes containing the words johnson and/or met:

“When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

“Whenever he met a great man he grovelled before him, and my-lorded him as only a free-born Briton can do.”
—William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863)