Tobias Smollett

The bread I eat in London, is a deleterious paste, mixed up with chalk, alum, and bone ashes: insipid to the taste,…

— Tobias Smollett

One wit, like a knuckle of ham in soup, gives a zest and flavour to the dish, but more than one serves…

— Tobias Smollett

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

— Tobias Smollett

To the valiant actions speak alone.

— Tobias Smollett

Opposition is the very spur of love.

— Tobias Smollett

Ridiculous modes, invented by ignorance, and adopted by folly.

— 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…

— Tobias Smollett

There is not room to swing a cat.

— Tobias Smollett

True courage scorns to vent her prowess in a storm of words; and to the valiant action speaks alone.

— Tobias Smollett

A man's opinion of danger varies at different times, in consequence of an irregular tide of animal spirits; and he is actuated…

— Tobias Smollett

“What passes for wine among us, is not the juice of the grape. It is an adulterous mixture, brewed up of nauseous…

— Tobias Smollett

The Highlanders regale themselves with whisky. They find it an excellent preservation against the winter cold. It is given with great success…

— Tobias Smollett

False as the fowler's artful snare.

— Tobias Smollett

“Woe be to that nation, where the multitude is at liberty to follow their own inclinations!”

— Tobias Smollett

Writing is all a lottery -- I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age.

— Tobias Smollett

Every shot has its commission, d'ye see? We must all die at one time, as the saying is.

— Tobias Smollett

Nature and wisdom are not, but should be, companions.

— Tobias Smollett

Glory is the child of peril.

— Tobias Smollett

A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail.

— Tobias Smollett

Number three is always fortunate.

— Tobias Smollett

Thy fatal shafts unerring move; I bow before thine altar, Love!

— Tobias Smollett

I think for my part one half of the nation is mad - and the other not very sound.

— Tobias Smollett

Nature I'll court in her sequester'd haunts, By mountain, meadow, streamlet, grove, or cell; Where the pois'd lark his evening ditty chants,…

— Tobias Smollett

I find that the old Roman baths of this quarter, were found covered by an old burying ground, belonging to the Abbey;…

— 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…

— Tobias Smollett