58 Quotations by Sydney Smith
- 1. A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good con ...
- 2. A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their g ...
- 3. A nation grown free in a single day is a child born with the limbs and the vigor of a man, who would ...
- 4. All this class of pleasures inspires me with the same nausea as I feel at the sight of rich plum-cak ...
- 5. Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising wher ...
- 6. Avoid shame but do not seek glory -- nothing so expensive as glory.
- 7. Benevolence is a natural instinct of the human mind; when A sees B in distress, his conscience alway ...
- 8. Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but ...
- 9. Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep ...
- 10. Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this allia ...
- 11. Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather t ...
- 12. Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.
- 13. Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ...
- 14. He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
- 15. Heat, ma am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my f ...
- 16. hen you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.
- 17. His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes ...
- 18. Hope is the belief, more or less strong, that joy will come; desire is the wish it may come.
- 19. How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is "I will see you in the vestry after ...
- 20. Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares t ...
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