Frases de James Boswell

— James Boswell
On an occasion of mocking a pair of Highland officers, circa 1672, as attributed by Ruaridh Nicoll, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/apr/22/scotland.devolution "As a Scot, I hate this idea of a neutered nation"], The Observer, 22 April 2007

„What can he mean by coming among us? He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.“

— James Boswell
Spoken by Samuel Foote about a "law-Lord" (1783)

„[... ] I observed he [Samuel Johnson] poured a large quantity of it [wine] into a glass, and swallowed it greedily. Everything about his character and manners was forcible and violent; there never was any moderation; many a day did he fast, many a year did he refrain from wine; but when he did eat, it was voraciously; when he did drink wine, it was copiously. He could practise abstinence, but not temperance.“

— James Boswell
(March 1781)

„I regretted I was not the head of a clan; however, though not possessed of such an hereditary advantage, I would always endeavour to make my tenants follow me.“

— James Boswell
(31 August 1773

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Frases de James Boswell

James Boswell

Frases James Boswell

„We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of acts of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.“

„Quoting: "Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.“

„It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.“

„As all who come into the country must obey the King, so all who come into an university must be of the Church.“

„My lord and Dr Johnson disputed a little, whether the savage or the London shopkeeper had the best existence; his lordship, as usual, preferring the savage.“

„Then, all censure of a man's self is oblique praise.“

„Sir,' said Mr Johnson, 'a lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes, unless his client asks his opinion, and then he is bound to give it honestly. The justice or injustice of the cause is to be decided by the judge.“

„We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.“

„I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically.“

„Boswell is pleasant and gay,
For frolic by nature designed;
He heedlessly rattles away
When company is to his mind.“

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

„Influence must ever be in proportion to property; and it is right it should.“

„I jumped up on the benches, roared out, "Damn you, you rascals!", hissed and was in the greatest rage. [... ] I hated the English; I wished from my soul that the Union was broke and that we might give them another battle of Bannockburn.“

„What can he mean by coming among us? He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.“

„I regretted I was not the head of a clan; however, though not possessed of such an hereditary advantage, I would always endeavour to make my tenants follow me.“

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