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James Boswell Quotes

Scottish - Lawyer | October 29, 1740 - May 19, 1795

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

Myself Best Hate I Am Think Bad

I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

I Am Understanding You Find Argument

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.

Good Think Conversation Innocent Wit

A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.

Friend Man Companion May Some Which

I suppose no person ever enjoyed with more relish the infusion of this fragrant leaf than did Johnson.

Leaf Person More Enjoyed Than Did

I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.

Character Man Practice Choose Degree

A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.

Good Conversation May Pun Smaller

There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Love Laughter Winning Friends Worth

If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.

Good Power World Delight Only Would

He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

Wit Complain Cannot Who He Provoked

A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion.

Cake Soup Page Journal Little May

It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.

Man Happy More Miserable Who Than

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