James Boswell Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von James Boswell:

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

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.

James Boswell

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

James Boswell

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

James Boswell

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

James Boswell

We must take our friends as they are.

James Boswell

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

James Boswell

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

James Boswell

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

James Boswell

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

James Boswell

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

James Boswell