58 Quotations by Sydney Smith
- 21. I am convinced digestion is the great secret of life.
- 22. I have gout, asthma, and seven other maladies, but am otherwise very well.
- 23. I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave.
- 24. I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.
- 25. I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.
- 26. It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting t ...
- 27. It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
- 28. It is safest to be moderately base -- to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is ge ...
- 29. It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do only a little. Do what you can.
- 30. It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite dir ...
- 31. Learn from the earliest days to insure your principles against the perils of ridicule; you can no mo ...
- 32. Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of ex ...
- 33. Live always in the best company when you read.
- 34. Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friends ...
- 35. Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our ...
- 36. Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyo ...
- 37. Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
- 38. Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in.
- 39. Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned ...
- 40. No furniture is so charming as books.
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