Boswell

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:

    “People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along? Can we get along? Can we stop making it, making it horrible for the older people and the kids?
    A man cannot know himself better than by attending to the feelings of his heart and to his external actions, from which he may with tolerable certainty judge “what manner of person he is.” I have therefore determined to keep a daily journal.”
    —James Boswell (1740–1795)

    “You did charmingly yesterday. You attended well to everything.”
    —James Boswell (1740–1795)

    “I argued that the chastity of women was of much more consequence than that of men, as the property and rights of families depend upon it.”
    —James Boswell (1740–1795)