If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.
Samuel Johnson
Character
If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.
Samuel Johnson
Life of Johnson (Boswell). Vol. ii. Chap. v. 1763.
Recorded in John Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, 1905 printing.