Boswell may refer to:
In places:
- Boswell, Indiana, US
- Boswell, Oklahoma, US
- Boswell, Pennsylvania, US
- Boswell, British Columbia, a rural community on Kootenay Lake in British Columbia, Canada
- Boswell, British Columbia (Central Coast), a former cannery town in the Smith Sound area of the Central Coast region of British Columbia, Canada
- Boswell Bay, Alaska, a place in Alaska
In other uses:
- Boswell (surname)
- James Boswell, often referred to as simply Boswell, friend and biographer of Samuel Johnson
- Clan Boswell, a Lowland Scottish clan
- Boswell (saint), Boisil, a 7th-century saint
- Boswell High School, Fort Worth, Texas, US
- Boswell Observatory, at Doane College in Nebraska, US
- Boswells of Oxford, or simply Boswells, a department store in Oxford, England
- The Boswells School, a secondary school in Chelmsford, Essex, England
- Boswell: A Modern Comedy, a novel by Stanley Elkin
Famous quotes containing the word boswell:
“It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.”
—James Boswell (1740–1795)
“Hume, and other skeptical innovators, are vain men, and will gratify themselves at any expense. Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity; so they have betaken themselves to errour. Truth, Sir, is a cow that will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.”
—James Boswell (1740–1795)
“Boswell, when he speaks of his Life of Johnson, calls it my magnum opus, but it may more properly be called his opera, for it is truly a composition founded on a true story, in which there is a hero with a number of subordinate characters, and an alternate succession of recitative and airs of various tone and effect, all however in delightful animation.”
—James Boswell (1740–1795)