Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Tobias Smollett (Scottish Poet)

Tobias Smollett (1721–71,) fully Tobias George Smollett, was a Scottish physician and satirical novelist. He is identified with the picaresque tradition of novel writing, typified by fast-moving narrative and humorous caricature.

Born on a farm near Cardross, Dunbartonshire, Smollett was educated at Dumbarton Grammar School and Glasgow University, where he obtained a degree in medicine. He moved to London in 1740 to find a producer for his tragedy The Regicide (1749) but failed.

Smollett sailed as a surgeon’s mate in the Battle of Cartagena de Indias against the Spanish in 1741. Three years later, he settled in London and began to practice as a surgeon in Downing Street. He continued to write as his primary pursuit.

Smollett is best known for his first picaresque novels Roderick Random (1748) and Peregrine Pickle (1751;) they portray the adventures in love and war of an unprincipled hero.

In 1753, Smollett settled in Chelsea and produced translations of Miguel de Cervantes and Voltaire. He founded and edited the Critical Review and wrote a History of England (3 vols., 1757–58.)

After being ordered abroad for his health, Smollett wrote the caustic Travels in France and Italy (1766.) The Adventures of an Atom (1769) was a bitter satire on public men and affairs. His epistolary novel The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker (1771) is considered a major classic of comic fiction, and the first genuinely British novel.

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Glory is the child of peril.
Tobias Smollett
Topics: Glory

A man’s opinion of danger varies at different times according to his animal spirits, and he is actuated by considerations which he dares not avow.
Tobias Smollett
Topics: Danger

Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.
Tobias Smollett
Topics: Boldness, Courage, Risk-taking, Risk

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.
Tobias Smollett
Topics: Ignorance, Wisdom

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.
Tobias Smollett
Topics: Wisdom

Nature I’ll court in her sequestered haunts, by mountain, meadow, streamlet, grove, or cell; where the poised lark his evening ditty chaunts, and health, and peace, and contemplation dwell.
Tobias Smollett
Topics: Retirement

The blast that blows loudest is soonest overblown.
Tobias Smollett

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