A Quote by Samuel Johnson

Once a coxcomb, always a coxcomb.

Samuel Johnson

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Samuel Johnson
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September 18, 1709 - December 13, 1784

Foppery is never cured; it is the bad stamina of the mind, which, like those of the body, are never rectified; once a coxcomb always a coxcomb.

Samuel Johnson

All the world says of a coxcomb that he is a coxcomb; but no one dares to say so to his face, and he dies without knowing it.

Jean de la Bruyere

A coxcomb is the blockhead's man of merit.

Jean de la Bruyere

Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man's own making.

Joseph Addison

It is always easy to shut a book, but not quite so easy to get rid of a lettered coxcomb.

Charles Caleb Colton

A coxcomb is four-fifths affectation and one-fifth vanity.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

A coxcomb is one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit.

Jean de la Bruyere

A coxcomb is ugly all over with the effectation of a fine gentleman.

Samuel Johnson

Of all the fools that pride can boast, A Coxcomb claims distinction most.

John Gay

swearing is, as I have said, learning to the ignorant, eloquence to the blockhead, vivacity to the stupid, and wit to the coxcomb.

Mary Collyer

There are two distinct sorts of what we call bashfulness; this, the awkwardness of a booby, which a few steps into the world will convert into the pertness of a coxcomb; that, a consciousness, which the most delicate feelings produce, and the most extensive knowledge cannot always remove.

Henry Mackenzie

And angling too, that solitary vice, What Izaak Walton sings or says: The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it.

Lord Byron

I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

John Ruskin

The best thing next to wit is a consciousness that it is not in us; without wit, a man might then know how to behave himself, so as not to appear to be a fool or a coxcomb.

Jean de la Bruyere

A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.

Charles Caleb Colton

For a long time, I dressed like an idiot. In college, I had a fully shaved head with just two horns. Like, a coxcomb of hair that I would sculpt into two horns. I looked like a crazy person.

Kurt Braunohler

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