Tobias Smollett: Quotes about love

Tobias Smollett was 18th-century poet and author from Scotland. Explore interesting quotes on love.

Tobias Smollett: 22 quotes0 likes

“As Love can exquisitely bless,
Love only feels the marvellous of pain;
Opens new veins of torture in the soul,
And wakes the nerve where agonies are born.”

Tobias Smollett

Edward Young, The Brothers (1753), Act V, scene i.
Misattributed

“Keen are the pangs
Of hapless love, and passion unapprov'd:
But where consenting wishes meet, and vows
Reciprocally breath'd, confirm the tie,
Joy rolls on joy, an inexhausted stream!
And virtue crowns the sacred scene.”

Tobias Smollett

Act I, scene iii.
The Regicide (1749)

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

Tobias Smollett book The Adventures of Roderick Random

The Adventures of Roderick Random (1848), Chapter xl, reported in Bartlett's Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).