James Boswell

Lawyer

28 Quotes

It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.

There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.

A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.

I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.

If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.

I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.

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.

If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.

A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion.

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

I suppose no person ever enjoyed with more relish the infusion of this fragrant leaf than did Johnson.

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.

He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

I suppose no person ever enjoyed with more relish the infusion of this fragrant leaf than did Johnson.

A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.

What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading!

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