Book Quote by James Boswell

Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed; and it is consolatory to think, that although we can seldom…

— James Boswell

Drinking is in reality an occupation which employs a considerable portion of the time of many people; and to conduct it in the most…

— James Boswell

“His OFELLUS in the Art of Living in London, I have heard him relate, was an Irish painter, whom he knew at Birmingham, and…

— James Boswell

If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing.

— James Boswell

Nay, Sir, it was not the WINE that made your head ache, but the SENSE that I put into it' 'What, Sir! will sense…

— James Boswell

Have a sense of piety ever on your mind, and be ever mindful that this is subject to no change, but will last you…

— James Boswell

There is indeed a strange prejudice against Quotation.

— James Boswell

We must take our friends as they are.

— James Boswell

[A]s a lady adjusts her dress before a mirror, a man adjusts his character by looking at his journal.

— James Boswell

We had some port, and drank damnation to the play and eternal remorse to the author.

— James Boswell

I find I journalize too tediously. Let me try to abbreviate.

— James Boswell

In comparing these two writers, he [Samuel Johnson] used this expression: "that there was as great a difference between them as between a man…

— James Boswell