James Boswell

Boswell, James Filmography

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  2001, role: actor , character name: Customer in Starbucks
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  2001, role: miscellaneous crew

Boswell, James Filmography

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  1970, role: writer

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Famous quotes by 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 kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over."

"I am, I flatter myself, completely a citizen of the world. In my travels through Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Corsica, France, I never felt myself from home."

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

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

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

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

"A Sceptick therefore, who because he finds that Truths are not universally received, doubts of their existence, is just as foolish as a man who should try large shoes upon little feet, and little shoes upon large feet, and finding that they did not f"

"I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on spirituous liquors. Gentle herb! Let the florid grape yield to thee. Thy soft influence is a more safe inspirer of social joy."

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

"What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading!"

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

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

"We must take our friends as they are."