Quotes Sydney Smith

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks...

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a li...

Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more ...

As the French say, there are three sexes - men, women, and c...

Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; a...

Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention ...

Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of yo...

Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth min...

Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possi...

Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in...

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things,...

Heaven never helps the men who will not act....

I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbi...

I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland....

I never read a book before previewing it; it prejudices a ma...

In composing, as a general rule, run a pen through every oth...

In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every ...

It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame...

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you...

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you...

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be...

Let the Dean and Canons lay their heads together and the thi...

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to ...

Live always in the best company when you read....

Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy a...