Quote by James Boswell Download Open image “He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.” — James Boswell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A man of remarkable genius may afford to pass by a piece of wit, if it happen to border on abuse. A little genius… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
He is forced to be literate about the illiterate, witty about the witless and coherent about the incoherent. — John Crosby Copy Share Image
To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
He who cannot shine by thought, seeks to bring himself into notice by a witticism. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn't a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“His OFELLUS in the Art of Living in London, I have heard him relate, was an Irish painter, whom he knew at Birmingham, and who had practiced his own precepts of economy for several years in the British capital. He assured Johnson, who, I suppose, was then meditating to try his fortune in London, but was apprehensive of the expence,… — James Boswell Copy Share
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 Copy Share Image
He had no settled plan of life, nor looked forward at all, but merely lived from day to day. Yet he read a great… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
[A]s a lady adjusts her dress before a mirror, a man adjusts his character by looking at his journal. — James Boswell Copy Share Image
We had some port, and drank damnation to the play and eternal remorse to the author. — James Boswell Copy Share Image
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