John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
63 Sir John Fortesue 1394-1476 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 63 |
| AUTHOR: | Sir John Fortescue (c. 1394–1476) |
| QUOTATION: | Comparisons are odious. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | De Laudibus Leg. Angliæ. Chap. xix. |
| Note 1. Cervantes: Don Quixote (Lockhart’s ed.), part ii. chap. i. John Lyly: Euphues, 1580. Christopher Marlowe: Lust’s Dominion, act iii. sc. 4. Robert Burton: Anatomy of Melancholy, part iii. sec. 3. Thomas Heywood: A Woman killed with Kindness (first ed. in l607), act i. sc. 1. Dr. John Donne: Elegy, viii. George Herbert: Jacula Prudentum. Grange: Golden Aphrodite. Comparisons are odorous.—William Shakespeare: Much Ado about Nothing, act iii. sc. 5. [back] |