The Bostonians Quotes

#1. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly: culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their "Hub," as they call it, is the paradise of prigs.

Oscar Wilde

#2. The Bostonians are really, as a race, far inferior in point of anything beyond mere intellect to any other set upon the continent of North America. They are decidedly the most servile imitators of the English it is possible to conceive.

Edgar Allan Poe

#3. The Bostonians are very well in their way. Their hotels are bad. Their pumpkin pies are delicious. Their poetry is not so good. Their Common is no common thing - and the duck pond might answer - if its answer could be heard for the frogs.

Edgar Allan Poe

#4. America is a mere bully, from one end to the other, and the Bostonians by far the greatest bullies.

Thomas Gage

#5. THERE'S ALWAYS A CLASS WAR GOING ON

Noam Chomsky

#6. Find joy in the extinction of desires.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#7. We don't see people as they are. We see people as we are.

Anais Nin

#8. The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting, we beguile the time with jokes, with sleep, with eating, and with crimes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. With every film, I try and give the audiences a little more than the previous film in terms of comedy, action, drama and so on.

Salman Khan

#10. I don't want to go anywhere outside of gymnastics.

Dina Kochetkova

#11. She spoke and loosened from her bosom the embroidered girdle of many colors into which all her allurements were fashioned. In it was love and int desire which steals the mind even of the wise.

Homer

#12. All mankind, not excluding Americans, are sinners
miserable sinners, as even no few Bostonians themselves nowadays contritely respond in the liturgy.

Herman Melville

#13. Boston is a tough and resilient town. So are its people. I'm supremely confident that Bostonians will pull together, take care of each other, and move forward as one proud city. And as they do, the American people will be with them every single step of the way.

Barack Obama

#14. Does he really expect me to vocalize a response while his fingers are touching my face? It's pretty hard to speak and hold your breath at the same time.

Colleen Hoover

#15. The awareness that the distinction between "over here" and "over there," or between "home" and "abroad" is often a false one has never left me.

Christopher Hitchens

#16. Newspapers ascribe the word "climber" to any person who falls in the mountains or off a rock. To refer to anyone who falls in the mountains as ... a climber ... is as factual as to say that anyone who sits down at a piano is a pianist.

Pat Ament

#17. Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he has injured you

Henry Fielding

#18. Britain's decision to send troops to the city did more to change the thinking of Bostonians than any step previously taken by London.

John Ferling

#19. I love sports, as all Bostonians seem to. I love books and movies, as all writers seem to.

William Landay