Tobias Smollett (Tobias George Smollett) Quotes

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

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• The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Women
  • Economy
  • Cards

• What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Trying
  • American
  • Find

• Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Up
  • May
  • Help

• I like to get up around 5:30 or six - that's my favorite time of day. My family is still asleep, and the office is still closed, so I can start my day slowly.

  

  Iman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Family

• I've been acting since age 8. I just stopped enjoying it as much as I used to.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Age
  • Acting
  • Used

• All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Morning
  • Three
  • Ship

• I've got so many clothes; I can dress in any style.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Style
  • Clothes
  • Dress

• The Left doesn't understand the importance of God in the Israeli public discourse, and Yesh Atid does.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • God
  • Understand
  • Discourse

• When I was 5 or 6, I was messing around with the piano, and I listened to everything from Chopin to boogie-woogie.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Everything
  • Piano
  • Chopin

• I was a crazy Pee-wee Herman fan when I was in my early teens. Before he had the kids' TV show, he had a nightclub show in L.A., and I had gotten a VHS copy of it. It was a kids' show, but onstage in a bar, so it's sort of poking fun at the kids' show. And I was obsessed with that, and then 'Pee-wee's Big Adventure.'

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Kids
  • Fun
  • Crazy

• I love comedy, but I was just obsessed with 'SNL' growing up.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Growing
  • Comedy
  • Obsessed

• I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Done
  • Career
  • Want

• If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• Yet voluble of dumb violence. You look Across the roofs as sigil and as ward And in your centre mark them and are cowed . . .

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Violence
  • Dumb

• The world could change in a second,so I find the sunshine beckons me,to open up the gate and dream.

  

  Robbie Williams Take That
  • Up
  • World
  • Dream

• To be alone with the girl to whom he is not engaged, is a man's delight; - to be alone with the man to whom she is engaged is the woman's.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • She
  • Girl
  • Alone

• This is George Bush’s accountability moment.

  

  Cindy Sheehan
  • Accountability

• Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Logic

• Seriously, Shane? Ditto? That's the best you can do?" Shane and Michael exchanged identical looks and shrugs. Guys. "Let me show you idiots how it's done," Eve said, and hugged Claire fiercely. She kissed her on the cheek. "I love you, CB. Please take care of yourself, okay?" "I love you, too," Claire said, and suddenly her throat felt tight and her eyes burned with tears. "I really do." Shane and Michael watched them with identical expressions of blank bemusement, and finally Shane said, "So basically, it's what I said. Ditto.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Best
  • Idiots
  • Expressions

• When you trade, the key concern is not always the value of the pieces being exchanged, but what's left on the board.

  

  Dan Heisman
  • Always
  • Concern
  • Board

• ...sometimes God chooses to bless us and make us people of integrity in the midst of abominable circumstances, rather than change our circumstances.

  

  D. A. Carson
  • People
  • God
  • Integrity

• Study and research into truth often only serves to make us see by experience our natural ignorance.

  

  Madeleine de Souvre
  • Experience
  • Truth
  • Study

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

  

  Tobias Smollett
  • Ignorance
  • Ridiculous
  • Folly