Sydney Smith Quotes
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Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time. ~Sydney Smith - Greatness
I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so. ~Sydney Smith - Critics and Criticism
It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects. ~Sydney Smith - Age and Aging
Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones. ~Sydney Smith - Solitude
Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time. ~Sydney Smith - Correction
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. ~Sydney Smith - Ignorance
It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them. ~Sydney Smith - Marriage
Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in. ~Sydney Smith - Conversation
Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient. ~Sydney Smith - Poverty and The Poor
Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due. ~Sydney Smith - Praise
Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737. ~Sydney Smith - Philosophers and Philosophy
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him. ~Sydney Smith - Faith
Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship. ~Sydney Smith - Compatibility
Oh, don't tell me of facts -- I never believe facts: you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures. ~Sydney Smith - Facts
How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is ''I will see you in the vestry after service.'' ~Sydney Smith - Churches
No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior. ~Sydney Smith - Power
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. ~Sydney Smith - Friends and Friendship
All this class of pleasures inspires me with the same nausea as I feel at the sight of rich plum-cake or sweetmeats; I prefer the driest bread of common life. ~Sydney Smith - Theater
A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience. ~Sydney Smith - Home
The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can. ~Sydney Smith - Action
Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect. ~Sydney Smith - Manners
A nation grown free in a single day is a child born with the limbs and the vigor of a man, who would take a drawn sword for his rattle, and set the house in a blaze that he might chuckle over the splendor. ~Sydney Smith - Revolutions and Revolutionaries
Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them. ~Sydney Smith - Marriage
Heat, ma am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones. ~Sydney Smith - Weather
What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors? ~Sydney Smith - Mathematics
I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury. ~Sydney Smith - Churches
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful. ~Sydney Smith - Silence
Live always in the best company when you read. ~Sydney Smith - Books and Reading
The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions. ~Sydney Smith - Preachers and Preaching
His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful. ~Sydney Smith - Silence
To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence. ~Sydney Smith - Love
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do only a little. Do what you can. ~Sydney Smith - Perseverance
A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage. ~Sydney Smith - Courage
Avoid shame but do not seek glory --nothing so expensive as glory. ~Sydney Smith - Glory
Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up. ~Sydney Smith - Letters
No furniture is so charming as books. ~Sydney Smith - Books and Reading
It is safest to be moderately base -- to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue. ~Sydney Smith - Wickedness
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing. ~Sydney Smith - Self-love
Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out. ~Sydney Smith - Reason
The writer does the most good who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time. ~Sydney Smith - Writers and Writing
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