Brighter Quote by James Boswell

Johnson is wise, Boswell foolish; Johnson warns and abstains, Boswell plunges; Johnson is rather a great man writing than a greatwriter, Boswell is a…

— Marvin Mudrick

“He pulled back the sleeve of his jacket and glanced at his vintage watch tick away the seconds in a conventional way, even though…

— Bruce Crown

“The dial of the clock wears out unevenly; Most worn Is the area round eight. As it is stared at with abrasive glances unfailingly…

— Abe Kōbō

“THE THING about Fielding was, the other shoe always dropped eventually. Because Fielding was like a database. Nothing you ever said or did, or…

— Eli Easton

“A clock and a watch may be different, but time is all they talk about.”

— Eduvie Donald

A gentleman's choice of timepiece says as much about him as does his Saville Row suit.

— Ian Fleming

“Fielding was a strange dichotomy of arrogant genius and self-conscious wallflower.”

— Eli Easton

“The men wore loose loincloths that did little to conceal penes like pendulums on grandfather clocks. There”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure.” -Lee Segall”

— Colin Wright

“Mr. Harrison was certainly different from other people…and that is the essential characteristic of a crank, as everybody knows.”

— L.M. Montgomery

Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and…

— William Hazlitt

That's what Samuel Johnson said: "Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think particularly fine, strike it out."

— Nick Laird