James Boswell Quotes About Mankind

Quotes about: Mankind

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

  James Boswell

  Writing, May, Fancy

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1786). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.43

• I think there is a blossom about me of something more distinguished than the generality of mankind.

  James Boswell

  Thinking, Mankind, Distinguished

  'Boswell's London Journal' (ed. F. A. Pottle, 1950) 20 January 1763

• Why should not the knowledge, the skill, the expertness, the assiduity, and the spirited hazards of trade and commerce, when crowned with success, be entitled to give those flattering distinctions by which mankind are so universally captivated? Such are the specious, but false arguments for a proposition which always will find numerous advocates, in a nation where men are every day starting up from obscurity to wealth. To refute them is needless. The general sense of mankind cries out, with irresistible force, "Un gentilhomme est toujours gentilhomme.

  James Boswell

  Men, Starting Up, Class

  James Boswell (2008). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.249, Wordsworth Editions

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