Quotes & Sayings About Bostonians

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

America is a mere bully, from one end to the other, and the Bostonians by far the greatest bullies. — Thomas Gage

I love sports, as all Bostonians seem to. I love books and movies, as all writers seem to. — William Landay

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

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

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

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

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

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. 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. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there. — Oscar Wilde