Samuel Johnson Quotes
We never do anything consciously for the last time without sadness of heart.
Johnson, Samuel. The Idler, No. 103. J. Newbery, 1761.
This quotation illustrates the horror which many society women felt when one of them became a suffragette. Note that the reaction was almost as if Emily had died. This social reaction by other women was emotionally one of the most difficult things with which the suffragette had to cope.
Samuel Johnson, often referred to as Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. Religiously, he was a devout Anglican, and politically a committed Tory. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes Johnson as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history". He is the subject of James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson, described by Walter Jackson Bate as "the most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature".
