James Boswell citáty a výroky
„Nikdo není tak snadno zranitelný vínem jako já.“
Zdroj: [Shaw, Karl, 2007, To je skandál!, Metafora, 1, 72]
James Boswell: Citáty anglicky
(19 September 1777)
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1791)
Varianta: 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.
October 26, 1769, p. 174
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II
Zdroj: The Life of Samuel Johnson
On an occasion of mocking a pair of Highland officers, circa 1672, as attributed by Ruaridh Nicoll, "As a Scot, I hate this idea of a neutered nation" http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/apr/22/scotland.devolution, The Observer, 22 April 2007
30 November 1784
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1791)
“The best good man, with the worst natur'd muse.”
Quoting John Wilmot, earl of Rochester's poem "To Lord Buckhurst", (18 August 1773)
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1785)
The lord was James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, (21 August 1773)
See similar debate in Angel.
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1785)
“Then, all censure of a man's self is oblique praise.”
25 April 1778
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1791)
15 August 1773
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1785)
“I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically.”
Quoting Samuel Johnson (16 August 1773)
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1785)
Quoting Samuel Johnson (19 August 1773)
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1785)
“Influence must ever be in proportion to property; and it is right it should.”
Quoting Samuel Johnson (18 August 1773)
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1785)
Quoting William Gerard Hamilton (1784)
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1791)
In a poem about himself, in "Biographic Sketches" in Chambers's Edinburgh Journal Vol. IV (1836). p. 341
“He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.”
Comment on Samuel Johnson's treatment of Thomas Sheridan (16 October 1769)
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1791)
Spoken by Samuel Foote about a "law-Lord" (1783)
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1791)
(31 August 1773
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1785)
Quoting Edwards, an old schoolmate of Johnson's (17 April 1778)
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1791)
19 August 1773
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1785)
Referring to Johnson (26 October 1769)
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1791)
“Such groundless fears will arise in the mind, before it has resumed its vigour after sleep!”
1 September 1773
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1785)