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Top 25 Tobias Smollett Quotes (2025 Update)

Tobias Smollett Quote: “Number three is always fortunate.”

1. “Number three is always fortunate.”

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Tobias Smollett Quote: “Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.”

2. “Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.”

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Tobias Smollett Quote: “True courage scorns to vent her prowess in a storm of words; and to the valiant action speaks alone.”

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

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Tobias Smollett Quote: “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.”

4. “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

Tobias Smollett Quote: “To the valiant actions speak alone.”

5. “To the valiant actions speak alone.”

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Tobias Smollett Quote: “I find that the old Roman baths of this quarter, were found covered by an old burying ground, belonging to the Abbey; through which, in all probability, the water drains in its passage; so that as we drink the decoction of the living bodies at the Pump-room, we swallow the strainings of rotten bones and carcasses at the private bath – I vow to God, the very idea turns my stomach!”

6. “I find that the old Roman baths of this quarter, were found covered by an old burying ground, belonging to the Abbey; through which, in all probability, the water drains in its passage; so that as we drink the decoction of the living bodies at the Pump-room, we swallow the strainings of rotten bones and carcasses at the private bath – I vow to God, the very idea turns my stomach!”

— Tobias Smollett

Tobias Smollett Quote: “Writing is all a lottery – I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age.”

7. “Writing is all a lottery – I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age.”

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Tobias Smollett Quote: “Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.”

8. “Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.”

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Tobias Smollett Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

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Tobias Smollett Quote: “I think for my part one half of the nation is mad – and the other not very sound.”

10. “I think for my part one half of the nation is mad – and the other not very sound.”

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Tobias Smollett Quote: “There is not room to swing a cat.”

11. “There is not room to swing a cat.”

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Tobias Smollett Quote: “Nature and wisdom are not, but should be, companions.”

12. “Nature and wisdom are not, but should be, companions.”

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Tobias Smollett Quote: “And hearts resolved and hands prepared The blessings they enjoy to guard.”

13. “And hearts resolved and hands prepared The blessings they enjoy to guard.”

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Tobias Smollett Quote: “The capital is become an overgrown monster; which, like a dropsical head, will in time leave the body and extremities without nourishment and support.”

14. “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

Tobias Smollett Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

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Tobias Smollett Quote: “A novel is a large diffused picture, comprehending the characters of life, disposed in different groups, and exhibited in various attitudes, for the purposes of an uniform plan, and general occurrence, to which every individual figure is subservient. But this plan cannot be executed with propriety, probability, or success, without a principal personage to attract the attention, unite the incidents, unwind the clue of the labyrinth, and at last close the scene, by virtue of his own importance.”

16. “A novel is a large diffused picture, comprehending the characters of life, disposed in different groups, and exhibited in various attitudes, for the purposes of an uniform plan, and general occurrence, to which every individual figure is subservient. But this plan cannot be executed with propriety, probability, or success, without a principal personage to attract the attention, unite the incidents, unwind the clue of the labyrinth, and at last close the scene, by virtue of his own importance.”

— Tobias Smollett

Tobias Smollett Quote: “A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail.”

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

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Tobias Smollett Quote: “False as the fowler’s artful snare.”

18. “False as the fowler’s artful snare.”

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Tobias Smollett Quote: “A man’s opinion of danger varies at different times, in consequence of an irregular tide of animal spirits; and he is actuated by considerations which he dares not avow.”

19. “A man’s opinion of danger varies at different times, in consequence of an irregular tide of animal spirits; and he is actuated by considerations which he dares not avow.”

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Tobias Smollett Quote: “Opposition is the very spur of love.”

20. “Opposition is the very spur of love.”

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Tobias Smollett Quote: “Glory is the child of peril.”

21. “Glory is the child of peril.”

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Tobias Smollett Quote: “For the first time, Smollett adopted a device that Barbara Foley calls “pseudofactual imposture,” a strategy of presentation that we associate with the fictions of Behn, Defoe, and Richardson.”

22. “For the first time, Smollett adopted a device that Barbara Foley calls “pseudofactual imposture,” a strategy of presentation that we associate with the fictions of Behn, Defoe, and Richardson.”

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Tobias Smollett Quote: “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.”

23. “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.”

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Tobias Smollett Quote: “Ridiculous modes, invented by ignorance, and adopted by folly.”

24. “Ridiculous modes, invented by ignorance, and adopted by folly.”

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Tobias Smollett Quote: “At every place where we halted, did she mount the stage, and flourished her rusty arms, without being able to make one conquest.”

25. “At every place where we halted, did she mount the stage, and flourished her rusty arms, without being able to make one conquest.”

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Tobias Smollett Quote: “As for the liberty of the press, like every other privilege, it must be restrained within certain bounds; for if it is carried to a breach of law, religion, and charity, it becomes one of the greatest evils that ever annoyed the community. If the lowest ruffian may stab your good-name with impunity in England, will you be so uncandid as to exclaim against Italy for the practice of common assassination? To what purpose is our property secured, if our moral character is left defenceless? People.”

26. “As for the liberty of the press, like every other privilege, it must be restrained within certain bounds; for if it is carried to a breach of law, religion, and charity, it becomes one of the greatest evils that ever annoyed the community. If the lowest ruffian may stab your good-name with impunity in England, will you be so uncandid as to exclaim against Italy for the practice of common assassination? To what purpose is our property secured, if our moral character is left defenceless? People.”

— Tobias Smollett

Tobias Smollett Quote: “Of this diversion the Scots are so fond, that, when the weather will permit, you may see a multitude of all ranks, from the senator of justice to the lowest tradesman, mingled together, in their shirts, and following the balls with utmost eagerness.”

27. “Of this diversion the Scots are so fond, that, when the weather will permit, you may see a multitude of all ranks, from the senator of justice to the lowest tradesman, mingled together, in their shirts, and following the balls with utmost eagerness.”

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Tobias Smollett Quote: “We have many obligations to this good lady, who is a kind neighbour, an obliging friend, and a most agreeable companion: she speaks English prettily, and is greatly attached to the people and the customs of our nation. They.”

28. “We have many obligations to this good lady, who is a kind neighbour, an obliging friend, and a most agreeable companion: she speaks English prettily, and is greatly attached to the people and the customs of our nation. They.”

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Tobias Smollett Quote: “Every shot has its commission, d’ye see? We must all die at one time, as the saying is.”

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

— Tobias Smollett

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