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Tobias Smollett Quotes

Tobias Smollett Quotes.

Deep in the frozen regions of the north,
A goddess violated brought thee forth,
Immortal Liberty!
Tobias Smollett
The capital is become an overgrown monster; which, like a dropsical head, will in time leave the body and extremities without nourishment and support.
Tobias Smollett
True courage scorns to vent her prowess in a storm of words; and to the valiant action speaks alone.
Tobias Smollett
Ridiculous modes, invented by ignorance, and adopted by folly.
Tobias Smollett
Nature and wisdom are not, but should be, companions.
Tobias Smollett
Writing is all a lottery — I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age.
Tobias Smollett
The bread I eat in London, is a deleterious paste, mixed up with chalk, alum, and bone ashes: insipid to the taste, and destructive to the constitution.
Tobias Smollett
Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.
Tobias Smollett
A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail. Index-hunter is a term used mockingly, meaning one who acquires superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes. The ‘[holding] the eel of science by the tail’ allusion was used in 1728 by Alexander Pope (q.v.).
Tobias Smollett
I think for my part one half of the nation is mad – and the other not very sound.
Tobias Smollett
One wit, like a knuckle of ham in soup, gives a zest and flavour to the dish, but more than one serves only to spoil the pottage.
Tobias Smollett
False as the fowler’s artful snare.
Tobias Smollett
Thy spirit, Independence, let me share! Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.
Tobias Smollett
There is not room to swing a cat.
Tobias Smollett
To the valiant actions speak alone.
Tobias Smollett
The Highlanders regale themselves with whisky. They find it an excellent preservation against the winter cold. It is given with great success to the infants in the confluent smallpox.
Tobias Smollett
Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.
Tobias Smollett
Opposition is the very spur of love.
Tobias Smollett