45 Quotes by 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.

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

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.

There is not room to swing a cat.

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

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, And health, and peace, and contemplation dwell.

False as the fowler's artful snare.

To the valiant actions speak alone.

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.