Boswell

Famous quotes containing the word boswell:

“[I] delivered the Introduction of it to Baldwin, that I might say my book was at if not in the press on New Year’s Day.”
—James Boswell (1740–1795)

“It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.”
—James Boswell (1740–1795)

“Had his other friends been as diligent and ardent as I was, he might have been almost entirely preserved. As it is, I will venture to say that he will be seen in this work more completely than any man who has ever yet lived.”
—James Boswell (1740–1795)