James Boswell Quotes & Sayings
14 most famous James Boswell quotes and sayings (lawyer). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“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.”
“What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading!”
“A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.”
“I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.”
“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.”
“I suppose no person ever enjoyed with more relish the infusion of this fragrant leaf than did Johnson.”
“If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.”
“He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.”
“A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion.”
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