“Boswell is the first of biographers”
Thomas Babington Macaulay
“Tim is a planner and he is extremely organized, as is Mayor Boswell, but Boswell refuses to take 'no' for an answer.”
Steve Hicks
“It's not easy [without Boswell], but I think we'll be fine.”
Peter Nowak
“Boswell Wide Awake.”
Alexandra Day
“Well, (said he), we had a good talk. BOSWELL: Yes, Sir, you tossed and gored several persons.”
Samuel Johnson
“[The biographer] must be as ruthless as a board meeting smelling out embezzlement, as suspicious as a secret agent riding the Simplon-Orient Express, as cold-eyed as a pawnbroker viewing a leaky concertina.”
Paul Murray Kendall
“If we believe that he (Jesus Christ) really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanisms, which his biographers father upon him, and admit the misconstructions, interpolations, and theorizations of the fathers of the early and the”
Thomas Jefferson
