Quotes About 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.

There is indeed a strange prejudice against Quotation.

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

In 1765, four years before Napoleon's birth, the Scottish lawyer and man of letters James Boswell visited the island and was enchanted with what he found. 'Ajaccio is the prettiest town in Corsica,' he later wrote. 'It

Drinking is in reality an occupation which employs a considerable portion of the time of many people; and to conduct it in the most rational and agreeable manner is one of the great arts of living.

Dr Johnson said, the inscription should have been in Latin, as every thing intended to be universal and permanent, should be.