James Boswell Quotes
What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading!.. view
By: James Boswell
A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion... view
By: James Boswell
A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation... view
By: James Boswell
For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation... view
By: James Boswell
He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it... view
By: James Boswell
I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am... view
By: James Boswell
I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything... view
By: James Boswell
I have found you an argument.. view
By: James Boswell
I suppose no person ever enjoyed with more relish the infusion of this fragrant leaf than did Johnson... view
By: James Boswell
If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good... view
By: James Boswell
It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy... view
By: James Boswell
There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends... view
By: James Boswell
We must take our friends as they are... view
By: James Boswell
A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself... view
By: James Boswell