Boston, Boston, Boston! Thou hast naught to boast on, But a Grand Sluice, and a high steeple; c.1500 A proud conceited ignorant people, And a coast where souls are lost on.

-Anonymous
  Comment by visitor at the opening of the Grand Sluice, Boston, Lincolnshire,15 Oct. Quoted in  Jennifer  Westwood Albion (1985), ch. 6,'English Shires'.

Boston is a state of mind.

-Appleton,Thomas Gold
Attributed. This quotation has also been attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson and Mark Twain.

A Boston man is the east wind made flesh.

-Appleton,Thomas Gold
Attributed.

  I will get me a bottle of Boston sea And a blue-gum nigger to sing me blues. I am tired of loving a foreign muse.

-Bene¤  t, StephenVincent
  'American Names'.

   And this isgood old Boston, The home of the bean and the cod, Where the Lowells talk to the Cabots And the Cabots talk only to God.

-Bossidy,John Collins
  Toast delivered at Holy Cross alumni dinner, Boston.

Boston State-House is the hub of the solar system.You couldn't pry that out of a Boston man, if you had the tire of all creation straightened out for a crowbar.

-Holmes, Oliver Wendell
^8  The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, ch.6.

New York is one of the capitals of the world and Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic. San Francisco is a lady, Boston has become Urban Renewal, Philadelphia and Baltimore and Washington blink like dull diamonds in the smog of Eastern Megalopolis, and New Orleans is unremarkable past the French Quarter. Detroit is a one- trade town, Pittsburgh has lost its golden triangle. St Louis has become the golden arch of the corporation, and nights in Kansas City close early. The oil depletion allowance makes Houston and Dallas naught but checkerboards for this sort of game. But Chicago is a great American city. Perhaps it is the last of the great American cities.

-Mailer, Norman Kingsley
  Miami and the Siege of Chicago,'The Siege of Chicago'.