63. Sir John Fortescue. c. 1394-1476. John Bartlett, comp. 1919. Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.

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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.


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]

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