Quotes About Boswell

In every place, where there is any thing worthy of observation, there should be a short printed directory for strangers.

Just call me the Boswell of the Krull Gang.

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

More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.

I had, in college, a professor called Walter Jackson Bate, and he taught a course called The Age of Johnson. It's about Samuel Johnson and his period, 18th-century British writing. So we all got to endure Samuel Johnson, and Boswell's 'Life of Johnson' is now my favorite book. I read it all the time I can; it's great for going to sleep.

Boswell: That, sir, was great fortitude of mind.Johnson: No, sir; stark insensibility.

O Rosey, why don't you stay just home and eat chocolate bars and read Boswell all this society-izing will bring you nothing but lines of anxiety on your face -- and a sociable smile ain't nothing but teeth

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

had been with Boswell and SO-27 for eight years, living in a Maida Vale apartment with Pickwick, a regenerated pet dodo left over from the days when reverse extinction was all the rage

It seems to me that someone must surely take the hint and write the life of Miss McGeeney, the woman who wrote the biography of the man who wrote the biography of the man who wrote the biography of the man who wrote the biography of Boswell.