Sydney Smith Quotes
Top 61 wise famous quotes and sayings by Sydney Smith
Sydney Smith Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Sydney Smith on Wise Famous Quotes.
Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.
Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.
Oh, don't tell me of facts, I never believe facts; you know, [George] Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.
Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.
How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is "I will see you in the vestry after service."
Many in this world run after felicity like an absent man hunting for his hat, while all the time it is on his head or in his hand.
Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces on me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool
Married couples resemble
a pair of scissors,
often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them
a pair of scissors,
often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them
Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.
The dearest things in the world
are our neighbor's eyes;
they cost everybody more
than anything else in housekeeping.
are our neighbor's eyes;
they cost everybody more
than anything else in housekeeping.
Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.
Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.
Mankind are always happy for having happiness. So if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years from now by the memory of it.
Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.
In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.
If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
All musical people seem to be happy.
It is the engrossing pursuit, -
almost the only innocent and
unpunished passion.
It is the engrossing pursuit, -
almost the only innocent and
unpunished passion.
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love, and to be loved, is the greatest happiness of existence.
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.
Scotland: That garret of the earth - that knuckle-end of England - that land of Calvin, oatcakes, and sulfur.
A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.
A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.